Quod si neque habere utendi argumentum est neque non utendi non habere, et speculi non tam possessio culpatur quam inspectio, illud etiam doceas necesse est, quando et quibus praesentibus in speculum inspexerim, quoniam ut res est, magis piaculum decernis speculum philosopho quam Cereris mundum profano videre.
So, if possession is no proof of use, and nonuse is no proof of nonpossession, and if blame attaches not so much to owning a mirror but to looking at it, you need to show when and in whose presence I looked in the mirror; since as it is, you consider it a greater sin for a philosopher to see a mirror than for someone uninitiated to see Ceres symbols.
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