I have often considered whence this custom that we so religiously observe should spring, of being more highly offended with the reproach of a vice so familiar to us than with any other, and that it should be the highest insult that can in words be done us to reproach us with a lie.
Horrela, maiz gogoetatu dut nondik sor litekeen bizio horren erantzukiaz beste edozeinez baino garrazkiago laidostaturik sentitzeko hain hertsiki betetzen dugun ohitura hau;