insomuch that the sage Dandamis, hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras, and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws, which, to second and authorise, true virtue must abate very much of its original vigour;
eta Dandamis zuhurrak Sokrates, Pitagoras, Diogenesen bizitzen berri entzutean, pertsonaia handitzat ustetsi zituen beste gauza orotan, baina apalduegiak legeen begirunera, berauen onartzeko eta betetzeko egiazko bertutea anitz baztertu behar baita bere etorkizko indarretik.