4p16d.md (520B)
1 Emotion towards a thing, which we conceive as future, 2 is fainter than emotion towards a thing that is present (IV. ix. 3 Coroll.). But desire, which arises from the true knowledge of 4 good and evil, though it be concerned with things which are good 5 at the moment, can be quenched or controlled by any headstrong 6 desire (by the last Prop., the proof whereof is of universal 7 application). Wherefore desire arising from such knowledge, when 8 concerned with the future, can be more easily controlled or 9 quenched, &c. Q.E.D. 10 11