Yıldızlar, Erdem ve İrade Üzerine

Meanwhile, their most powerful and vehement argument against us is their claim that, according to the principles of this art, all the duties of virtue are removed from human affairs. If temperance, fortitude, prudence, and justice are granted by the decrees of the stars and not by our own wills, then we no longer depend on the constant practice of virtue, but solely on the influences of the stars. On the contrary, if someone breaks the bond of society and charity, neglects the laws of human reconciliation, and hands himself over entirely to ferocity and treachery following his own crime and the perverse desires of his mind, he may ascribe it to the judgments of the stars. Let him be unjust, treacherous, malevolent, and irreligious, because a bad constellation of Mercury with Mars performs these vices; he may then attribute the vice not to himself, but to the stars that impel him.