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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

  • I'm so sorry, Curt, but in the words of the great Ovid: "Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor."

    Archive 2009-02-08 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • Quae longo tempore consueta sunt, etiamsi deteriora, minus in assuetis molestare solent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • 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.

    Consolation of Philosophy 2007

  • Video meliora, deteriora sequor, as we said at college.

    The Virginians 2006

  • 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.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • 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

  • 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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