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Scholium — Part III
Latin
His videmus facile contingere ut homo de se deque re amata plus justo et contra de re quam odit, minus justo sentiat, quæ quidem imaginatio quando ipsum hominem respicit qui de se plus justo sentit, superbia vocatur et species delirii est quia homo oculis apertis somniat se omnia illa posse quæ sola imaginatione assequitur quæque propterea veluti realia contemplatur iisque exultat quamdiu ea imaginari non potest quæ horum existentiam secludunt et ipsius agendi potentiam determinant. Est igitur superbia lætitia ex eo orta quod homo de se plus justo sentit. Deinde lætitia quæ ex eo oritur quod homo de alio plus justo sentit, existimatio vocatur et illa denique despectus quæ ex eo oritur quod de alio minus justo sentit.
English (Elwes 1883)
Thus we see that it may readily happen, that a man may easily think too highly of himself, or a loved object, and, contrariwise, too meanly of a hated object. This feeling is called pride, in reference to the man who thinks too highly of himself, and is a species of madness, wherein a man dreams with his eyes open, thinking that he can accomplish all things that fall within the scope of his conception, and thereupon accounting them real, and exulting in them, so long as he is unable to conceive anything which excludes their existence, and determines his own power of action. Pride, therefore, is pleasure springing from a man thinking too highly of himself. Again, the pleasure which arises from a man thinking too highly of another is called over--esteem. Whereas the pleasure which arises from thinking too little of a man is called disdain.
Modern English
From this we see how easily it can happen that someone thinks more highly of himself and of what he loves than is warranted, and contrariwise thinks less of a hated thing than is warranted. When this self-inflation concerns the person himself, when he thinks more highly of himself than is warranted, it is called pride, which is a kind of madness: the person dreams with open eyes, imagines that he can accomplish everything his imagination reaches, and so contemplates these things as real and exults in them, so long as he cannot conceive anything that would exclude their existence and determine the limits of his power to act. Pride, then, is joy arising from a person thinking more highly of himself than is warranted.
The joy that arises from thinking more highly of another than is warranted is called esteem. The joy that arises from thinking less of another than is warranted is called contempt.