To Florus 3.24

If neither calamity nor weakness nor a desire to transgress bears on him, how can he destroy in judging the pattern of justice he commended by commanding? Indeed, he would be raging not against that justice but against reverence for himself. For fairness has such power that it both condemns those who stray and loses none of its force through the authority of those who abandon it. How, finally, could he want us to do what is just and himself do what is unjust? Does he want us to seem more just than he is—or rather, not more just, but ourselves fair and himself unfair?