To Florus 1.10

He also praises a powerful man for throwing the weight of his high position against our petitions and preventing us from obtaining a time or place for discussion. We had cried out for nothing except judges to be appointed in so great a matter, so that actions known to have been secured by misrepresentation might be corrected rather than punished after investigation. Whether the man to whom the book is addressed actually acted as wickedly as this praise declares is for him to consider. My own little work, in which I mentioned his name honorably, made plain how much better I thought of him. That book may perhaps contain falsehoods about its patron. But it faithfully reveals what its author wants: a struggle waged by savage force and blind abuse of power against reason, against faith, and against every form of holiness in conduct and doctrine.