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I can say with Ovid, video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor* (* I see and approve better things, but follow the worse which I condemn.).
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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I'm so sorry, Curt, but in the words of the great Ovid: "Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor."
Archive 2009-02-08 2009
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Canada and the EU eager to consummate "free trade" pacts with that regime, the human rights situation in that country is deteriora ...
Dan Kovalik: Colombia Commits "Crimes Against Humanity" as Free Trade Pacts Are Debated 2009
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Canada and the EU eager to consummate "free trade" pacts with that regime, the human rights situation in that country is deteriora ...
Dan Kovalik: Colombia Commits "Crimes Against Humanity" as Free Trade Pacts Are Debated 2009
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Quae longo tempore consueta sunt, etiamsi deteriora, minus in assuetis molestare solent.
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Melioribus animum conformaveris, nihil opus est judice præmium deferente, tu te ipse excellentioribus addidisti; studium ad pejora deflexeris, extra ne quæsieris ultorem, tu te ipse in deteriora trusisti.
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Video meliora, deteriora sequor, as we said at college.
The Virginians 2006
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Habitat deteriora - tion in the Kruger National Park will not only negatively affect the elephant population, but also other animal populations utilising the same habitat.
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I can say with Ovid, video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor* (* I see and approve better things, but follow the worse which I condemn.).
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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I can say with Ovid, video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor* (* I see and approve better things, but follow the worse which I condemn.).
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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