What you do reveals your true colours
“Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.”
"You should never touch your idols: a little of the gold always rubs off."
- Madame Bovary (1856)
It really is such a let-down when someone you respect is revealed to be not the person you imagined. It is even worse when the people around them dismiss their act as not 'egregious', when black is white and white is black.
Sigh. "Don't meet your heroes", as they say.
