For, on the one hand, the virtuous Epicurus, like many well-intentioned men of this day who do not reflect deeply enough on their principles, fell into the error of presupposing the virtuous disposition in the persons for whom he wished to provide the springs to virtue (and indeed the upright man cannot be happy if he is not first conscious of his uprightness; since with such a character the reproach that his habit of thought would oblige him to make against himself in case of transgression and his moral self-condemnation would rob him of all enjoyment of the pleasantness which his condition might otherwise contain).
Izan ere, alde batetik Epikuro bertutetsuak akats bat egin zuen, orain ere jaidura moral ona izanik euren printzipioei buruz nahiko hausnarketa sakona egin ez duten gizonek bezala, hots, jaidura bertutetsua aurresuposatzen dute bertuterako bultzagaia lehenik eman nahi dien pertsonengan (eta egitatean pertsona zuzena ezin da zoriontsu sentitu, aurretik bere zuzentasunaz jabetzen ez bada, zeren jaidura hura urratzean bere pentsaerak egitera behartuko lukeen gaitzespenek eta norberaren buruaren madarikazio moralak bestela bere egoerak bilduko lukeen gustagarritasunaren gozo oro ostuko bailioke).