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Proposition — Part III

Latin

Cum mens suam impotentiam imaginatur, eo ipso contristatur.

English (Elwes 1883)

When the mind contemplates its own weakness, it feels pain thereat.

Modern English

When the mind imagines its own powerlessness, it is saddened by that very fact.

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