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The same thing, no doubt, happens to many others as well; for where is the man who can help thinking that, after all, it were better not to have done something that he did with great deliberation: Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te Conatus non poeniteat votique peracti? Why is it that common is an expression of contempt? and that uncommon, extraordinary, distinguished, denote approbation?
No. 102. Quid tam dextro pede concipis, ut te Conatus non poeniteat votique peracti? JUV. Sat. x. 5. What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone. I HAVE been for many years a trader in London.
Maltravers retraced his steps, entered his house, and was just in time to find himself almost in the arms of De Montaigne. "Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te, Conatus non poeniteat, votique peracti?"* JUV. * What, under such happy auspices do you conceive that you may not repent of your endeavour and accomplished wish? "YES," said De Montaigne, "in my way I also am fulfilling my destiny.
Maltravers retraced his steps, entered his house, and was just in time to find himself almost in the arms of De Montaigne. "Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te, Conatus non poeniteat, votique peracti?"* JUV. * What, under such happy auspices do you conceive that you may not repent of your endeavour and accomplished wish? "YES," said De Montaigne, "in my way I also am fulfilling my destiny.
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