E3P29S
Scholium — Part III
Latin
Hic conatus aliquid agendi et etiam omittendi ea sola de causa ut hominibus placeamus, vocatur ambitio præsertim quando adeo impense vulgo placere conamur ut cum nostro aut alterius damno quædam agamus vel omittamus; alias humanitas appellari solet. Deinde lætitiam qua alterius actionem qua nos conatus est delectari, imaginamur, laudem voco; tristitiam vero qua contra ejusdem actionem aversamur, vituperium voco.
English (Elwes 1883)
This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so eagerly endeavour to please the vulgar, that we do or omit certain things to our own or another's hurt: in other cases it is generally called kindliness. Furthermore I give the name of praise to the pleasure, with which we conceive the action of another, whereby he has endeavoured to please us; but of blame to the pain wherewith we feel aversion to his action.
Modern English
This striving to act or to refrain from acting solely in order to please others is called ambition, especially when we are so eager to please the crowd that we act or refrain from acting to our own harm or another's. Otherwise it is usually called kindliness.
I call praise the joy with which we imagine the action of another by which he strove to please us. I call blame the sadness with which we feel aversion toward that same action.