And it puzzles me that these joys, so precarious at best, and so rarely perfect in the course of human life, however we may have sought or received them, should be regarded with such mistrust by the so-called wise, who denounce the danger of habit and excess in sensuous delight, instead of fearing its absence or its loss; in tyrannizing over their senses they pass time which would be better occupied in putting their souls to rights, or embellishing them.
harritu, ikusita nola diren sasi-jakintsu horiek amodioaren usadio eta gehiegikeria-edo deitzen duten zer horren beldur, amodioaren hutsunearen edo galeraren beldur izan beharrean; harritu eta txunditu, baita ere, ikusirik nola, beren arima taxutu eta edertzeari eskaini ordez, beren zentzuak tiranizatzeari eskaintzen dioten denbora.