The heart is freed and lightened of a burden that always secretly presses on it, when instances of pure moral resolutions reveal to the man an inner faculty of which otherwise he has no right knowledge, the inward freedom to release himself from the boisterous importunity of inclinations, to such a degree that none of them, not even the dearest, shall have any influence on a resolution, for which we are now to employ our reason.
Ezkutuan beti hertsatzen dion zama batetik askatzen eta arintzen da horrela bihotza, aurkezten diren erabaki moral hutsen adibideek gizakiari erakusten diotenean hari ongi ezaguna ere ez zitzaion ahalmena, joeren jazarpen ozenetik hain urrun ihes egiteko barne askatasuna, non horietako ezeinek, ezta maitatuenak ere, ez baitu eraginik gure arrazoimena erabili beharko genukeen erabaki baten gain.