For example, I may have acted more egotistically than is in accordance with my character, led astray by exaggerated ideas of the need in which I myself stood, or of the craft, falseness, and wickedness of others, or because I hurried too much, i.e., acted without deliberation, determined not by motives distinctly known in abstracto, but by merely perceived motives, by the present and the emotion which it excited, and which was so strong that I had not properly the use of my reason;
Horrela, adibidez, joka nezakeen neure karakterrari dagokion baino egoistago, aurkitzen nintzen premiaren errepresentazio gehiegizkoak bultzatu izanaren bidez erraturik, edo beste batzuen amarruak, faltsukeriak, txarkeriak edo baita presakaegi ibili naizelako ere, h. d. gogoeta egin gabe jokatu dudalako, ez in abstracto argiro ezaguturiko motiboak, baizik begiesgarri soilaren bidez determinaturik, presentearen inpresioaren eta afekzioaren bidez, zeinak eragin baitu eta hain indartsua izan baita, non neure arrazoimenaz ere propioki baliatu ez naizen;