I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.

Veo jóvenes, mis paisanos, cuya desgracia es haber heredado haciendas, casas, ganados, graneros y aperos de labranza, que es más fácil adquirirlos que deshacerse de ellos. mejor si hubieran nacido en la dehesa y amamantados por una loba, que hubieran visto con ojos más claros en qué campo estaban llamados a trabajar.