Only I wish they would spare them the example of so-called noble (super-meritorious) actions, in which our sentimental books so much abound, and would refer all to duty merely, and to the worth that a man can and must give himself in his own eyes by the consciousness of not having transgressed it, since whatever runs up into empty wishes and longings after inaccessible perfection produces mere heroes of romance, who, while they pique themselves on their feeling for transcendent greatness, release themselves in return from the observance of common and every-day obligations, which then seem to them petty and insignificant.
Baina galdetuko balitz, ordea, zer den bada benetan etikotasun hutsa, non proba-harri gisa ekintza ororen eduki morala probatu behar den, orduan aitortu behar dut filosofoek baino ezin dutela auzi horren erabakia zalantzagarri bihurtu;