To provide against this inconvenience, the Stoics, when they are asked whence the election in the soul of two indifferent things proceeds, and that makes us, out of a great number of crowns, rather take one than another, they being all alike, and there being no reason to incline us to such a preference, make answer, that this movement of the soul is extraordinary and irregular, entering into us by a foreign, accidental, and fortuitous impulse.
Eragozpen honetarik itzurtzeko, estoikoek, galdegiten zaienean nondik heldu den gure gogoan bi gauza bereiztezinetarik hautatzea, eta zerk dagien ezkutu-andana batetik har dezagun bata bestea baino lehen, denak berdin izanez, eta hobestera garamatzan arrazoirik ez izanez, baderantzute gogo higidura hori ohiz landako eta desarautua dela, gure baitan datorrelarik bulkatze arrotz, menturazko eta zorizko batetik.