For as often as a man loses self-command, or is struck down by a misfortune, or grows angry, or becomes faint-hearted, he shows that he finds things different from what he expected, consequently that he was caught in error, and did not know the world and life, did not know that the will of the individual is crossed at every step by the chance of inanimate nature and the antagonism of aims and the wickedness of other individuals:
Zeren gizaki batek nolabait bere onetik irteten den bakoitzean, ezbehar batek lurrera bota duelako edo etsitzen edo sumintzen delako, orduan erakusten du horrela espero zuenaz bestetara aurkitzen dituela gauzak, ondorioz errorean harrapaturik zegoela, mundua eta bizitza ez zituela ezagutzen, ez zekiela nola ausaren bitartez natura bizigabeak, helburu kontrajarrien bitartez, baita txarkeriaren bitartez bizi izandakoak ere, norbanakoaren nahimenarekin gurutzatzen dituen urrats bakoitzean: