But whether a bad man shows his badness in petty acts of injustice, cowardly tricks, and low knavery which he practises in the narrow sphere of his circumstances, or whether as a conqueror he oppresses nations, throws a world into lamentation, and sheds the blood of millions; this is the outward form of his manifestation, that which is unessential to it, and depends upon the circumstances in which fate has placed him, upon his surroundings, upon external influences, upon motives;
Baina gaiztagin batek bere gaiztakeria bidegabekeria txikietan, herra koldarretan, makurkeria kaxkarretan, zeinak bere ingurumarietako zirkulu estuetan burutzen baititu, edo konkistatzaile gisa herriak zapaltzen baditu, mundu bat ezbeharretan amilarazten badu, milioika pertsonaren odola isurtzen badu: hori bere agerpenaren kanpoko forma da, horren alde ez-esentziala, eta hori zoriak ezartzen duen zirkunstantzien, bizi-ingurunearen, kanpoko eraginen, motiboen mendean dago;