Non ita sensus nostros maeror hebetavit ut impios scelerata contra virtutem querar molitos, sed quae speraverint effecisse vehementer admiror. Nam deteriora velle nostri fuerit fortasse defectus, posse contra innocentiam, quae sceleratus quisque conceperit inspectante deo, monstri simile est. Unde haud iniuria tuorum quidam familiarum quaesivit: ‘Si quidem deus,’ inquit, ‘est, unde mala? Bona vero unde, si non est?’ 
 

My grief has not so blunted my senses that I should complain about those no-good sorts who try to topple virtue with their wicked schemes, but that they should have succeeded in their ambitions is frankly a shock. For we all have it in us to be less than perfect, but in full view of God, the wicked overcoming innocence? – it’s appalling. No wonder another of your adherents was moved to ask: ‘How can there be evil if there is a god, and how can there be good if there is not?’