11:1
Jam quali fuga viros fugias, soror Florentina, tu judica, si tam sollicite feminas saeculi declinabis. Quisque vir, si sanctus est, nullum tecum gerat familiaritatem; ne videndi jugitate aut infametur utriusque sanctitas, aut pereat. Decidet enim a charitate Dei, quae perpetrandi mali operis occasionem praebuerit; decidet a charitate proximi, quae etsi malum non agit, opinione tameu pessimam famam nutrit. Dispar enim sexus in unum locatus, eo titillatur instinctu quo nascitur; et naturalis movetur flamma, si composita auigerit. Quis colligavit ignem in sinu suo, et non comburetur ? Ignis et stupa sibi utraque contraria, in unum redacta flammas nutriuut.
Now with what flight you ought to flee men, sister Florentina, judge for yourself, if you will so carefully avoid the women of the world. Let any man, if he be holy, hold no familiarity with you; lest by the frequency of seeing one another the holiness of both be either defamed or destroyed. For she who has offered an occasion of perpetrating an evil deed will fall from the charity of God; and she who, though she does no evil, yet by report nourishes a most evil reputation, will fall from the charity of her neighbor. For a different sex placed together is titillated by the same instinct whereby it is born; and the natural flame is stirred, if anything aptly fitted touches it. Who has bound fire in his bosom and shall not be burned? Fire and tow, each contrary to the other, when brought together feed the flames.
芙羅倫提娜妹妹啊，你既要如此謹慎地避開世上的婦女，那麼你當以何等的逃避來躲開男子，自己便可判斷了。凡男子，他縱然聖潔，也不可與你有任何親密往來；免得因彼此屢屢相見，兩人的聖潔或被毀謗，或被毀壞。因為那給人提供犯惡行機會的，必從神的愛中墜落；那縱不行惡、卻因傳聞滋養極壞名聲的，也必從愛鄰舍中墜落。因為不同的性別擺在一處，便被那生它的同一本能所撩動；那本性的火焰一受合適之物的觸動便被挑起。誰能懷裡揣火而不焚燒呢？火與麻屑，二者彼此相剋，一旦並在一處，便助長烈焰。
11:2
Viri sexus et feminae diversus, si conjungitur, quod lex naturae provocat, commovetur.
The male sex and the female, being diverse, if they are joined together, are aroused by that which the law of nature provokes.
男性與女性既不相同，若結合在一處，便被那本性之律所挑動之事所激動。