For our will naturally moving us to desire nothing, but those things which our understanding presents in some manner as possible, certain it is, that if we consider all the good which is without us, as equally distant from our power, we should have no more regret for the want of those which seem due to our births, when without any fault of ours we shall be deprived of them, then we have in wanting the possessions of the Kingdoms of China or Mexico.
hau dela eta, guk kontsideratzen badugu guregandik kanpo dauden gauza guztiak berdin daudela gure eskutik urrun, orduan berdin penatuko gaituzte itxuraz jaiotzetik falta ditugun gauzek (gabezia hori ez delako gure errua), nola Txinako edo Mexikoko erresumak gureak ez izateak.