but yet, though treaties were more religiously observed, they would still dislike the custom of making them, since the world has taken up a false maxim upon it, as if there were no tie of nature uniting one nation to another, only separated perhaps by a mountain or a river, and that all were born in a state of hostility, and so might lawfully do all that mischief to their neighbours against which there is no provision made by treaties;
Bizkitartean estatuek beren hitzarmenak xerrentuki begira balitzate ere, iduritzen zaie agindu guzien zin eginez finkatzeko ohitura hori behargabe sartua dela: muno batek edo errekarte batek, alegia bereizten dituen bi herri naturak elkarren lagun egin ez balitza. Baina delako ohitura hark sinestarazten die auzoei, elkarri arrotz eta etsai izaiteko jaioak direla;