For, as much as whilst we are under any uneasiness, we cannot apprehend ourselves happy, or in the way to it; pain and uneasiness being, by every one, concluded and felt to be inconsistent with happiness, spoiling the relish even of those good things which we have: a little pain serving to mar all the pleasure we rejoiced in.
Zeren, kezka edo ezerosotasunen baten eraginpean gauden bitartean, ezin gara zoriontsu edo zorionerako bidean sentitu; oinazea eta kezka zorionarekin uztarrezintzat ditugunez eta, gainera, dauzkagun gauza onen gozamena ere eragotzi egiten dutenez, aski da oinaze txiki bat atsegin guztien gozamena hondatzeko.