all are indiscriminately subjected to a multitude of petty preliminary exercises, in which their youth is wasted and their imagination quenched, so that they despair of ever fully attaining what is held out to them;
eta, horrela, etsi egiten dute eskaintzen zaizkien ondasunak inoiz bete-betean gozatu ahal izateaz; eta, azkenean, aparteko gauzak egin ahal izatera iristen direnean, galdua dute horretarako gustua.