E4P56S

Scholium to Proposition 56 — Part IV

English (Elwes 1883)also show

Latin

Abjectio tamen facilius corrigi potest quam superbia quandoquidem hæc lætitiæ, illa autem tristitiæ est affectus atque adeo (per propositionem 18 hujus) hæc illa fortior est.

English (Elwes 1883)

Yet dejection can be more easily corrected than pride; for the latter being a pleasurable emotion, and the former a painful emotion, the pleasurable is stronger than the painful (IV. xviii.).

Modern English

Dejection can nevertheless be corrected more easily than pride, since pride is an affect of joy and dejection an affect of sadness; and joy is stronger than sadness (E4P18).

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Propositions

E4P18