"Hence it follows, that the emotions of the animals which are called irrational only differ from man's emotions, to the extent that brute nature differs from human nature. ...Thus, although each individual lives content and rejoices in that mature belonging to him wherein he has his being, yet the life. wherein each is content and rejoices, is nothing else but the idea, or soul, of the said individual, and hence the joy of one differs in nature from the joy of another, to the extent that the essence of one differs from the essence of another. ...Thus far I have treated of the emotions attributable to man, in so far as he is passive. It remains to add a few words on those attributable to him in so far as he is active."
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