As Socrates said that the principal office of wisdom was to distinguish good from evil, we, the best of whom are vicious, ought also to say the same of the science of distinguishing betwixt vice and vice, without which, and that very exactly performed, the virtuous and the wicked will remain confounded and unrecognised.
Sokratesek zioen bezala zuhurtziaren lehen ofizioa ongien eta gaizkien bereiztea zela, guk, zeinetarik hoberena beti bizioan baita, gauza bera esan behar dugu bizioen bereizteko jakintzan; haren zehaztasunik gabe bertutetsua eta gaiztoa nahasiak eta ezezagunak gelditzen baitira.