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Updated: May 8, 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.
"Video meliora proboque I mean, bring it me hot, with sugar, John," he said to waiter. "I would have some more, too, only I don't want it," said Pen. "It does not seem to me, Warrington, that we are much better than our neighbours." And Warrington's last glass having been despatched, the pair returned to their chambers.
'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;
Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor, confessed the Latin poet. Have we not seen men of the highest intelligence, gifted with foresight, quite capable of grasping the relation of means to ends, nevertheless subject to the baleful influence of momentary desires which drive them hither and thither like a rudderless bark at the mercy of the wind and tide?
"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.
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