but this dismal state of affairs, this prudence of the lowest order, which even insects possess (which in a great danger are fain to sham death so as to avoid doing "too much"), has, thanks to the counterfeiting and self-deception of weakness, come to masquerade in the pomp of an ascetic, mute, and expectant virtue, just as though the very weakness of the weak-that is, forsooth, its being, its working, its whole unique inevitable inseparable reality-were a voluntary result, something wished, chosen, a deed, an act of merit.
ezer ez egitea komeni zaigu, horretarako behar bezain sendoak ez bagara"; baina gertakarien errealitate mingots hori, maila behereneko zuhurtzia hori, intsektuek berek ere badutena (zeinek arrisku handia denean, hildakoarena egiten duten ezer "gehiegizkorik" ez burutzeko), jantzi egin da, ezintasunaren faltsifikazio eta burugezurtapenaren arte horri esker, bertute ukatzaile, isil, igurikatzailearen erlantzaz, ahularen ahulezia bera-hau da, bere funtsa, bere obratzea, bere errealitate oso, bakar, saihestezin, ezabaezina-berariazko lorpen bat balitz bezala, zerbait nahi izana, hautatua, egintza bat, meritu bat.