The prodigious grandeur of the Roman commonwealth would have been an advantage to the world in general, if there had not been that unjust distinction between the citizens of Rome and the conquered nations, if the governors of provinces had not been invested with an authority so considerable, if the just laws, established in opposition to their tyranny, had been always put in execution, and if they had not, in order to render them of no effect, availed themselves of the very treasures which they had amassed by their injustice.
Munduarentzat zorion handia zatekeen erromatar Errepublikaren handitze miresgarria, erromatar hiritarren eta herri garaituen arteko diferentzia zuzengabea ez balitz izan; probintzietako gobernadoreei ez balitzaie eman izan halako botere gehiegizkorik;