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Since this is so unshakable that no argument can overthrow it, choose whichever you prefer and consistently affirm either my statement or yours, so that you impute guilt either to necessity or to will.When I say “whichever you prefer,” I am not advising you as though your opinion were still hidden: you learned through Manichaeus to bring crimes into nature.I give this warning so that the truthfulness of your argument may be put on record.
Cum ergo hoc ita inconcussum sit, ut nulla queat argumentatione convelli; tu elige utrum mavis, et vel nostram, vel tuam constanter affirma sententiam; ut aut necessitati, aut voluntati imputes culpam. Cum autem dico, utrum mavis, non sic admoneo, quasi tua adhuc lateat opinio, qui crimina naturae per Manichaeum importare didicisti; sed ideo hoc commoneo, ut disputationis tuae veritas denotetur.