For clearly if we were to keep pace with his fortunes, we should often call the same man happy and again wretched, making the happy man out to be chameleon and insecurely based. Or is this keeping pace with his fortunes quite wrong?
Agerikoa baita, halabeharraren gorabeherei jarraitzen badiegu, (5) pertsona berberari zoriontsu baita zorigaitz ere deituko diogula sarritan, gizaki zoriontsua oinarri ustelekoa eta kamaleoi bat bezalakoa azalduz; edo, inolaz ere ez da zuzena halabeharraren gorabeherei jarraitzea?