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Proposition — Part IV

Latin

Vis et incrementum cujuscunque passionis ejusque in existendo perseverantia non definitur potentia qua nos in existendo perseverare conamur sed causæ externæ potentia cum nostra comparata.

English (Elwes 1883)

The power and increase of every passion, and its persistence in existing are not defined by the power, whereby we ourselves endeavour to persist in existing, but by the power of an external cause compared with our own.

Modern English

The force and increase of any passion, and its perseverance in existing, are defined not by the power by which we strive to persist in our being, but by the power of an external cause compared with our own.

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