I so much love to disengage and disobligate myself, that I have sometimes looked upon ingratitudes, affronts, and indignities which I have received from those to whom either by nature or accident I was bound in some way of friendship, as an advantage to me;
Hainbat maite dut neure buruaren arintzea eta libratzea non, naturaz edo halabeharrez, adiskidantzaren eginbehar zerbait zor nienen aldetik ukan nituen eskergaitzak, laidoak eta irainak inoiz neure alde zenbatu baititut, haien hutsaldia neure zorraren kitatze eta arintze bezala hartuz.