This means that your essence, reader, mine, that of the man Spinoza, that of the man Butler, of the man Kant, and of every man who is a man, is nothing but the endeavour, the effort, which he makes to continue to be a man, not to die.
Esan nahi da, hire esentzia, irakurle, nirea, Spinoza gizonarena, Butler gizonarena, Kant gizonarena eta gizona den gizon bakoitzarena, gizona izaten irauteko ahalegina baino ez dela, hila ez izateko eginahala.