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Leviathan

CHAPTER VI
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Thirdly, from the consideration of many of them together.

Fourthly, from the Alteration or succession it selfe.
Hope-- For Appetite with an opinion of attaining, is called HOPE.
Despaire-- The same, without such opinion, DESPAIRE.
Feare-- Aversion, with opinion of Hurt from the object, FEARE.
Courage-- The same, with hope of avoyding that Hurt by resistance, COURAGE.
Anger-- Sudden Courage, ANGER.
Confidence-- Constant Hope, CONFIDENCE of our selves.
Diffidence-- Constant Despayre, DIFFIDENCE of our selves.
Indignation-- Anger for great hurt done to another, when we conceive the same to be done by Injury, INDIGNATION.
Benevolence-- Desire of good to another, BENEVOLENCE, GOOD WILL, CHARITY.

If to man generally, GOOD NATURE.
Covetousnesse-- Desire of Riches, COVETOUSNESSE: a name used alwayes in signification of blame; because men contending for them, are displeased with one anothers attaining them; though the desire in it selfe, be to be blamed, or allowed, according to the means by which those Riches are sought.
Ambition-- Desire of Office, or precedence, AMBITION: a name used also in the worse sense, for the reason before mentioned.
Pusillanimity-- Desire of things that conduce but a little to our ends; And fear of things that are but of little hindrance, PUSILLANIMITY.
Magnanimity-- Contempt of little helps, and hindrances, MAGNANIMITY.
Valour-- Magnanimity, in danger of Death, or Wounds, VALOUR, FORTITUDE.
Liberality-- Magnanimity in the use of Riches, LIBERALITY Miserablenesse-- Pusillanimity, in the same WRETCHEDNESSE, MISERABLENESSE; or PARSIMONY; as it is liked or disliked.
Kindnesse-- Love of Persons for society, KINDNESSE.
Naturall Lust-- Love of Persons for Pleasing the sense onely, NATURAL LUST.
Luxury-- Love of the same, acquired from Rumination, that is Imagination of Pleasure past, LUXURY.
The Passion Of Love; Jealousie-- Love of one singularly, with desire to be singularly beloved, THE PASSION OF LOVE.

The same, with fear that the love is not mutuall, JEALOUSIE.
Revengefulnesse-- Desire, by doing hurt to another, to make him condemn some fact of his own, REVENGEFULNESSE.
Curiosity-- Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not onely by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by praedominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continuall and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnall Pleasure.
Religion Superstition; True Religion-- Feare of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publiquely allowed, RELIGION; not allowed, superstition.

And when the power imagined is truly such as we imagine, TRUE RELIGION.
Panique Terrour-- Feare, without the apprehension of why, or what, PANIQUE TERROR; called so from the fables that make Pan the author of them; whereas in truth there is always in him that so feareth, first, some apprehension of the cause, though the rest run away by example; every one supposing his fellow to know why.


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