However, these emotions, humility and self-abasement, are extremely rare. For human nature, considered in itself, strives against them as much as it can (see III. xiii., liv.); hence those, who are believed to be most self-abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious.
Zeren giza naturak, bere hartan utziz geroz, kontra egiten die bere ahal guztiez, (ikus 13. eta 54. Prop.) eta, horrela, apalenak eta umilenak dauzkagunak dira, maizenik, handinahienak eta bekaiztienak.