And because the reason which surveys the whole left the one-sided point of view of the individual to which it belongs, and freed itself for the moment from its dependence upon it, it saw the pleasure of an individual in inflicting wrong always outweighed by the relatively greater pain of the other who suffered the wrong; and it found further, that because here everything was left to chance, every one had to fear that the pleasure of conveniently inflicting wrong would far more rarely fall to his lot than the pain of enduring it.
Eta osokia gainetik pentsatzen duen arrazoimena aldendu egin baitzen dagokion norbanakoaren ikuspuntu aldebakarretik eta izaki horrekiko dituen interesetatik une baterako libratu egiten baitzen, norbanako batengan injustizia egitearen gozamena bestearen injustizia jasatean erlatiboki min handiago batek gainditu duela ikusi zuen eta gainera, dena hemen ausaren baitan utzirik geratu delako, aurkitu zuen bakoitzak beldurra izan behar ziola, beretzat askozaz bakanagoa izango zela injustizia egite okasiozkoaren gozamena injustizia sofritzearen minetan esku hartzearen aldean.