"Co la morte a lato cerco del viver mio novo consiglio, et veggio 'l meglio, et al peggior m'appiglio."
— Petrarch

January 1, 1970

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Compare: — Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor. — I see, approving, Things that are good, and yet I follow worse ones. — Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book VII, lines 20–21 (trans. R. Humphries)