When a magistrate (and in France such instances are not rare) indulges his trivial wit at the expense of the prisoner, or derides the predicament in which a culprit is placed, it would be well to deprive him of his robes of office, to see whether he would recall some portion of the natural dignity of mankind when he is reduced to the apparel of a private citizen.
Gure arteko zenbait magistratu, auzitan dabiltzan alderdiak zakar tratatzen edo beroriei hitz politak zuzentzen, defentsaren argudioen aurrean bizkarra goratzen eta akusazioen zerrendaketan atseginez irribarre egiten ikusten ditudanean, toga kentzen saiatzea nahi nuke, ea hiritar arruntak bezala jantzirik egoteak giza espeziearen berezko duintasuna gogorarazten dien.