To Florus 4.103
Thus it is to lose its own condition through its own condition, and exist without what it was defined as unable to exist without! This is denying reality. What comparable thing did Anaxagoras do when he said snow was black? You invent the claim that a thing’s nature is denied by its own fruits. Necessity and will are opposites, so that, as I showed above, they destroy one another by mutual conflict. Yet through a new and impossible alliance and a monstrous relationship, you make one arise as the other’s effect. You say necessity grew from the fruits of will, so that will erased itself by multiplying itself and changed its own condition through its activity. To state the matter in its own terms: after will began to be will, it ceased to be will. What could be imagined, I will not say more stupid, but more insane? Since these two, necessity and will, cannot coexist, and since you have confirmed my statement that an offense cannot exist without will, while also agreeing that infants have no will, you are dragged by the throat into admitting that there is no sin in them, since you professed that sin cannot exist without will.
Latin
Ut conditionem suam conditione sua perdat, et sit absque hoc, sine quo non posse esse definitum est. Hoc est inficiari rebus. Quid tale Anaxagoras, qui nivem nigram esse dicebat? Commentaris rei alicuius naturam suis fructibus negari; cumque sit contrarium necessitas et voluntas, ita ut, sicut supra ostendimus, mutua se impugnatione consumant; tu novo impossibilique foedere ac necessitudine monstruosa alterum alterius subdis effectui, et dicis necessitatem de fructibus voluntatis exortam, ut voluntas sua se multiplicatione deleverit, et statum proprium operata mutaverit; atque, ut rem ipsam suis vocabulis exprimamus, postquam coepit voluntas esse, voluntas esse desierit. Quo quid potest, non dico obtusius, sed furiosius cogitari? Cum ergo haec duo simul esse non possint, id est, necessitas et voluntas, tuque confirmaveris quod diximus, non posse esse sine voluntate delictum, assentiaris quo ⁄ que non esse in parvulis voluntatem; contorto gutture cogeris annuere nullum in his esse peccatum quod sine voluntate non posse esse professus es.