The vanity of our presumption makes us prefer rather to owe our sufficiency to our own exertions than to her bounty, and to enrich the other animals with natural goods, and abjure them in their favour, in order to honour and ennoble ourselves with goods acquired, very foolishly in my opinion;
eta seguruagoa da naturari uztea gure zuzenketaren uhalak geuri baino. Geure hantusteriaren hutsalak badagi hobets dezagun zor izatea geure jakintza geure indarrei ezen ez haren eskuzabaltasunari;