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Proposition — Part III

Latin

Lætitia quæ ex eo oritur quod scilicet rem quam odimus destrui aut alio malo affici imaginamur, non oritur absque ulla animi tristitia.

English (Elwes 1883)

Joy arising from the fact, that anything we hate is destroyed, or suffers other injury, is never unaccompanied by a certain pain in us.

Modern English

Joy arising from the fact that we imagine a thing we hate to be destroyed or otherwise harmed is not without some accompanying sadness.