Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself: for reason effaces all other grief and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance, which is so much the more grievous, by reason it springs within, as the cold and heat of fevers are more sharp than those that only strike upon the outward skin.
Bizioak uzten du, haragian zauri bat bezala, gogoan dolu bat beti bere burua arramaskatzen eta odoleztatzen duena. Zeren arrazoiak ezabatzen baititu garaitiko iluntasunak eta minak; baina doluarena sortzen du, larriagoa baita, barrenean sortzen baita;