He had read that it so numbs and bewitches our intelligence and memory that the soul, in its joy, quite forgets its proper state and clings with astonished admiration to that most beautiful of all the things the sun shines upon: yes, that only with the help of a bodily form is the soul then still able to exalt itself to a higher vision.
Zeren, ziotenez, liluratu eta trabatu egiten zituen adimena eta oroimena hainbesteraino, non arimak, plazerrak bultzaturik, erabat ahazten baitzuen bere egoera eta, txundimen miresleak menperaturik, eguzkiak argitzen dituen gauzarik ederrenei itsatsirik baitzirauen: bai, gorputz oaten laguntzaz bakarrik irits zitekeen gero begiespen-maila jasoago batera.