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Lucretius, de Rerum Natura, 1.80-82

“I fear, in these matters, that you may by chance think that you are entering upon the first principles of reason and taking your first step upon the path of sin.”

Illud in his rebus vereor, ne forte rearis
inpia te rationis inire elementa viamque
indugredi sceleris.

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