For my part, I consider some men as infinitely beyond me, especially amongst the ancients, and yet, though I clearly discern my inability to come near them by a thousand paces, I do not forbear to keep them in sight, and to judge of what so elevates them, of which I perceive some seeds in myself, as I also do of the extreme meanness of some other minds, which I neither am astonished at nor yet misbelieve.
Badakusat haiek igaiteko baliatzen diren itzulingurua; eta miresten naiz haien handigoaz eta biziki ederrak aurkitzen ditudan oldarte horiek besarkatzen ditut;