otherwise they would not have classed it as identical with rhetoric or even inferior to it, nor have thought it easy to legislate by collecting the laws that are thought well of; they say it is possible to select the best laws, as though even the selection did not demand intelligence and as though right judgement were not the greatest thing, as in matters of music.
Izan ere, lege onenak aukera daitezkeela uste dute, aukeraketa ezagumenaren kontua ez balitz bezala, eta zuzen bereiztea zereginik handiena ez balitz bezala, musikari dagokion bezala.