"Prop. 21 explains to us the nature of Pity, which we may define as pain arising from another's hurt. What term we can use for pleasure arising for another's gain, I know not. We call the love towards him who confers a benefit on another, Approval; and the hatred towards him who injures another, we will call Indignation. ...we not only feel pity for a thing which we have loved, but also for a thing which we have hitherto regarded without emotion, provided that we deem that it resembles ourselves... Thus we bestow approval on one who has benefited anything resembling ourselves, and, contrariwise, are indignant with him who has done it an injury."
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