Yet with much better grace than we, who, when we lose an acquaintance, strive to give him new and false praises, and to make him quite another thing when we have lost sight of him than he appeared to us when we did see him; as if regret were an instructive thing, or as if tears, by washing our understandings, cleared them.
Guk baino grazia gehiagorekin, zeren lehen ezagunaren galtzean, lehiatzen baikara laudorio berri eta faltsuen mailegatzera eta, ikusmenetik galdu dugunean, ikusten genuenean iruditzen ez zitzaigunaz osoki besterik egitera; oroit-mina zati irakasgarri bat balitz bezala; edo negarrek, gure adimena ikuziz, argituko balute bezala.