Rumor is not always wrong
It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.