PROP. IX. An emotion, which is attributable to many and diverse causes which the mind regards as simultaneous with the emotion itself, is less hurtful, and we are less subject thereto and less affected towards each of its causes, than if it were a different and equally powerful emotion attributable to fewer causes or to a single cause.
Zenbait kausa ezberdinei dagokien afektua, Izpirituak bera hunkia den aldi berean kontenplatzen duena, ez da hain kaltegarri, ez hain jasangaitz, eta ez gaitu kausa berezi bakoitzaren aldetik hainbeste hunkitzen, nola baikenitzake hunki edo kausa gutiagori edo kausa bakarrari legokiokeen beste afektu berdin handi batek.