One who is allowed to sin, sins less
Rumor is not always wrong
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
Posterity will pay everyone their due.