Besides the flexibility of our invention to forge reasons of all sorts of dreams, our imagination is equally facile to receive impressions of falsity by very frivolous appearances; for, by the sole authority of the ancient and common use of this proverb, I have formerly made myself believe that I have had more pleasure in a woman by reason she was not straight, and accordingly reckoned that deformity amongst her graces.
Amets mota guztientzat arrazoien moldatzeko gure asmamenaren malgutasunaz gainera, gure irudimena ere berdin erraza aurkitzen da faltsutasunaren hunkimenen onartzeko itxura osoki hutsalen bidez. Zeren, zuhurtitz horren erabilpen publiko eta zaharraren ospe bakarragatik behiala sinestarazi bainion neure buruari atsegin gehiago erdietsi nuela emakume batengandik zuzena ez zelako, eta hori bere grazien artean ezarri bainuen.