Whereas the attachment of the non-lover, which is alloyed with a worldly prudence and has worldly and niggardly ways of doling out benefits, will breed in your soul those vulgar qualities which the populace applaud, will send you bowling round the earth during a period of nine thousand years, and leave you a fool in the world below.
Maitemindu gabearekiko adiskidantzak, ordea, zentzutasun hilkorrarekin nahasita, modu hilkor eta ekonomizatzaileaz kudeatzen duenak, jendetzak bertute bezala goresten duen askatasunik gabeko arrunkeria arima maitean sortuz, bederatzi mila urtez lurraren inguruan eta azpian adimenik gabe biraka ibilaraziko du berau.