This goes so far, that every man who endures a great bodily or mental suffering, indeed every one who merely performs some physical labour which demands the greatest exertion, in the sweat of his brow and with evident exhaustion, yet with patience and without murmuring, every such man, I say, if we consider him with close attention, appears to us like a sick man who tries a painful cure, and who willingly, and even with satisfaction, endures the suffering it causes him, because he knows that the more he suffers the more the cause of his disease is affected, and that therefore the present suffering is the measure of his cure.
Hori hainbesteraino da, non gizaki oro, gorputzeko sofrimendu handi bat edo espiritual gogor bat jasaten ari dena, are esfortzu handiena eskatzen duen gorputzeko lana bere aurpegiko izerditan eta akidura nabariaz burutzen duen oro, baina hori guztia egonarria eta marmarrarik gabe, diot nik, horrelako gizaki oro, arreta sakonez kontsideratzen badugu, nolabait sendaketa mingarri bat hartzen ari den gaixo bat bezala agertzen zaigu, zeinak eragindako mina nahita eta gogobetetasunez ere jasaten baitu, bai baitaki, zenbat eta gehiago sofritu, hainbat gehiago suntsituko dela gaixotasunaren gaia ere, eta horregatik presenteko mina bere sendakuntzaren neurria izango dela.