The soft, benevolent, yielding, sympathetic feelings-eventually valued so highly that they almost became "intrinsic values," were for a very long time actually despised by their possessors:
Sentimendu ezti, onbera, barkabera, errukiorrek-zeinek geroago lortu zuten hain balio garaia, non ia "bere baitako balioak" diren-, oso denbora luzean, beren kontra buruarbuioa izan zuten: