There would not be means and matter enough of cruelty, did we not mix with them things that nature has exempted from all sense and suffering, as reputation and the products of the mind, and did we not communicate corporal punishments to the teachings and monuments of the Muses.
Ez zen krudelkeria biderik ez gairik aski, eta naturak sentimenduz eta jasankizunez gabetu zituen gauzak nahasi genituen ere, hala nola omena eta geure gogoaren asmamenak, eta joan ginen gorputzezko nekeak Musen lantze eta eraikuntzeetara hedatzera.