and I think that I desire, both for myself and for those about whom I have care, that in some of our affairs we should be prosperous and in others should fail, and thus go through life alternately faring well and ill, rather than that we should be prosperous in all things:
Eta nahiago dut, agian, bai neronek eta bai axola zaizkidanetakoek, zenbait egintza-arlotan arrakasta izan arren, beste zenbaitetan porrota izatea, eta, modu honetan, bizitza batezbesteko gertakariz igarotzea;