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Therefore he who has conferred a benefit confers it in obedience to the desire, which he feels of being loved in return; that is (III.

xxxiv.) from the hope of honour or (III.xxx.

note) pleasure; hence he will endeavour, as far as he can, to conceive this cause of honour, or to regard it as actually existing.

But, by the hypothesis, he conceives something else, which excludes the existence of the said cause of honour: wherefore he will thereat feel pain (III.
xix.).

Q.E.D.
PROP.XLIII.


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