hurt, however, is, no doubt, excessively slight, and, upon that account, if he makes any violent out-cry, as I cannot go along with him, I never fail to despise him. And this is the case of all the passions which take their origin from the body; they excite either no sympathy at all, or such a degree of it, as is altoge|ther disproportioned to the violence of what is felt by the sufferer.
It is quite otherwise with those pas|sions which take their origin from the imagination. The frame of my body can be but little affected by the altera|tions which are brought about upon that of my companion: but my imagination is more ductile, and more readily as|sumes, if I may say so, the shape and configuration of the imaginations of those wi••h whom I am familiar. A disappoint|ment in love, or ambition, will, upon this account, call forth more sympathy than the greatest bodily evil. Those pas|sions arise altogether from the imagina|tion. The person who has lost his whole fortune, if he is in health, feels nothing in his body. What he suffers is from the imagination only, which represents to him
