A corrupt or an incapable magistrate will not concert his measures with another magistrate, simply because that individual is as corrupt and as incapable as himself; and these two men will never unite their endeavors to promote the corruption and inaptitude of their remote posterity.
Magistratu usteldu edo gaitasungabeak ez ditu bere ahaleginak beste magistratu batekin konbinatuko, azken hau ere bera bezalaxe ezgai eta usteldua delako arrazoiagatik bakarrik, eta bi hauek ez dute inoiz adostasunean lan egingo ustelkeria eta gaitasunik eza beren ondorengoen artean lorarazteko.