If we have once for all distinctly recognised not only our good qualities and our strength, but also our defects and weakness, established our aim accordingly, and rest satisfied concerning what cannot be attained, we thus escape in the surest way, as far as our individuality permits, the bitterest of all sorrows, discontentment with ourselves, which is the inevitable result of ignorance of our own individuality, of false conceit and the audacity that proceeds from it.
orduan ihes egiten diogu seguruen, gure indibidualitateak baimentzen digun neurrian, sofrimendu guztietatik mingotsenari, geure buruarekiko gogobetetasunik ezari, zeina indibidualitate propioa ez ezagutzearen, iritzi faltsuaren eta hortik sortutako ausardiaren ezinbesteko ondorio baita.