Map · Book 2: Of the Passions · Part 2: Of love and hatred · T 2.2.5 Of our esteem for the rich and powerful
T 2.2.5.1
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NOTHING has a greater tendency to give us an esteem for any person, than his power and riches; or a contempt, than his poverty and meanness: And as esteem and contempt are to be consider'd as species of love and hatred, 'twill be proper in this place to explain these phænomena.