{How Maxims came to be so much in vogue.} This method of the Schools, which have been thought the fountains of knowledge, introduced, as I suppose, the like use of these maxims into a great part of conversation out of the Schools, to stop the mouths of cavillers, whom any one is excused from arguing any longer with, when they deny these general self-evident principles received by all reasonable men who have once thought of them:
Ezagutzaren iturritzat hartu zen eskolen metodo honek maximen antzeko erabilera sartu zuela uste dut eskoletatik kanpoko solasaldi askotan ere lardaskatzaileei ahoa ixteko, zeren printzipio orokor berez nabari horiek, euretaz pentsatu duen gizaki zentzudun orok onartzen dituenak, ukatzen dituztenean, haiekin eztabaidan ez jarraitzeko arrazoizko aitzakia aurkitzen baitu edonork;