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To Florus 2.15

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Yet we certainly cannot deny what I have said: filthy crowds greatly enjoy blaming nature for the offenses of the will and defending moral wantonness by slandering human seed. The result is that no one tries to correct what he expects something else within him to be committing.

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Illud tamen nequaquam inficiari possumus, quod plurimum, ut dixi, turbis placeat, luteis tamen delicta voluntatis imputare naturae, et infamatione seminum morum petulantiam vindicare; ut numquam quis emendare conetur, quod sperat in se ipso alterum perpetrare.