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Thus, when the wise are allowed little while the worthless are allowed whatever they please, the judgment of virtue has been expelled from the churches by the decree of rioters.What counts against us among the common people is our refusal to swell the ranks of error.I mean the crowd that weighs the worth of an opinion by its success and judges it truer the more people it sees approving it.
Ita cum prudentibus parum licet, vilibus autem quod libet etiam licet seditionum decreto exclusa est de Ecclesiis censura virtutum; nobisque hoc apud homines vulgi officit, quod accessio erroris esse renuimus; vulgi, inquam, qui sententiae meritum de prosperitatibus ponderans, eam veriorem aestimat quam pluribus placere conspexerit.