"The spirit is not only not humiliated, but is exalted by the assumption that it takes its origin from matter. Or whose nobility can be given more, the one who inherited his dog's skin from giant ancestors, demigods, or the one who rose from the dust and came into possession of it by his own merits?!
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Mentovich FerencAll Translations
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The spirit is not only not humiliated, but is exalted by the assumption that it takes its origin from matter. Or whose nobility can be given more, the one who inherited his dog's skin from giant ancestors, demigods, or the one who rose from the dust and came into possession of it by his own merits?!
""A szellem nemcsak megalázva nincs, de fel van magasztalva azon fölvétel által, hogy az, az anyagból veszi származását. Avagy kinek nemességére lehet többet adni, azéra, ki kutyabőrét, óriási nagyságú ősöktől, félistenektől örökölte, vagy azéra, ki maga saját érdemei által a porból fölemelkedve jutott annak birtokába?!"