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Updated: May 13, 2025
But free will tends towards good, and if it meets with evil it is by accident, for the reason that this evil is concealed beneath the good, and masked, as it were. These words which Ovid ascribes to Medea, Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor, imply that the morally good is mastered by the agreeably good, which makes more impression on souls when they are disturbed by the passions.
"And conscious of it in every issue. One long and pious scold, after a high-minded, bad-tempered formula of its own." "Then I'll give you a motto for your Ledger." Edmonds puffed it out enjoyably, decorated with bluish and delicate whorls. "'Meliora video proboque, deleriora sequor." "No; I won't have that.
But it stimulated her to labour incessantly at her drawing; silently to try and gain information from Miss Meliora; to haunt the painter's studio, until she had become familiar with many of its mysteries. She had crept into Vanbrugh's good graces, and he made her useful in a thousand ways.
Meliora ran to the mantelpiece, and brought one to her brother. "Is this it?" He nodded. She ran for the light, and read aloud "The Reverend Harold Gwynne." The subject of Harold Gwynne served Olive-and her mother for a full half-hour's conversation during that idle twilight season which they always devoted to pleasant talk.
But if you choose to persevere in the views you now advocate, so be it. They will not make poor Julie less a believer in your wisdom and genius. Only they will separate you from me, and a day may come when I should have the painful duty of ordering you to be shot Die meliora. Think over all I have thus frankly said.
'Again, if the affections in themselves were pliant and obedient to reason, it were true there should be no great use of persuasions and injunctions to the will, more than of naked propositions and proofs; but in regard of the continual mutinies and seditions of the affections, Video meliora proboque Deteriora sequor;
The circumstance was by no means improbable, and it had evidently been strongly impressed on Christal by the woman she called ma mie. Whatever relationship there was between them, it could not be the maternal one. Miss Vanbrugh could not believe in the possibility of a mother thus voluntarily renouncing her own child. Miss Meliora put Christal to board with an old servant of hers for a few weeks.
She thanked God, for she felt that she was not unhappy. Perhaps, ere following Olive's fortunes, it may be as well to set the reader's mind at rest concerning the incident narrated in the preceding chapter. It turned out the olden tale of passion, misery, and death. No more could be made of it, even by the imaginative Miss Meliora. A few words will comprise all that she discovered.
Life for the average conscientious man is a perpetual battle between two opposing tendencies, that which his better self endorses, and that which is easiest or most alluring at the moment of action. Ovid's Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor. And St. Paul's "To will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not.
"Whoever they were, they have carefully provided for her. If they erred or suffered, let neither their sin nor their sorrow go down to their child." "It shall be so," said the good Meliora. And since Christal asked no further questions and, indeed, her lively nature seemed unable to receive any impressions save of the present the subject was not again referred to.
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