An idea from Ethics

Under all your feelings sit just 3: desire, pleasure and pain. Pleasure is your power to act going up, and pain is that power going down. Love is pleasure joined to the idea of what caused it, and hate is pain joined the same way.

From Ethics by Baruch Spinoza

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