and where reason importuned me, have armed them against myself; so that they ordered themselves more decorously and securely by my rules, when they frankly referred themselves to them, than they would have done by their own.
eta, arrazoiak hertsaten ninduenean, neure buruaren aurka armatu ditut, eta beraienen bidez ibili izan ziratekeen baino segurkiago eta larriago jokatzen ziren neure arauen bidez, osoki emanak zirelarik.