1236. However, not to want to die on account of the children is quite natural, both for the good and the evil. For even the evil love their children, but for the purposes prevailing in them, such as wanting to stand out with distinctions, and so forth.
1236. But to be unwilling to die on account of one's children is natural both with the good and the evil; for the evil also love their children, but for the sake of the ends which prevail in themselves, namely, that they may shine with honors, and so forth.
1236. At vero propter liberos non velle mori, hoc naturale est, tam in bonis quam in malis, nam mali quoque amant suos liberos, sed propter fines, qui in iis praevalent, ut nempe emineant honoribus, et sic porro.