The pain which is at that period of time essential to our nature, and therefore cannot be shaken off, would, without the definite external cause of our suffering, be divided at a hundred points, and appear in the form of a hundred little annoyances and cares about things which we now entirely overlook, because our capacity for pain is already filled by that chief evil which has concentrated in a point all the suffering otherwise dispersed.
Baldin eta gure izakian denbora-epe horretarako oinarritutako eta horregatik bazterrezina den mina sofrimenduaren kanpoko kausa determinatu hura gabe ehun puntutan banaturik balego, eta ehun gogaikarritasun txiki edo gauzen gaineko apeta bitxiren taxupean agertuko balitz, zeinak orain ez baititugu inola ere aintzakotzat hartzen, minerako gure kapazitatea gaitz nagusi hark jadanik beterik daukalako, zeinek gainerakoan berriaturiko sofrimenduak puntu bakar batean kontzentratu baititu. Horri dagokio, halaber, behaketa hau ere: