“Better it is to have the worst, than none at all.”
Cardanus Comforte (1574)
Context: Better it is to have the worst, than none at all. for example we see, that houses are nedefull, such as can not possese & stately pallaces of stone, do persuade themselves to dwell in houses of timber and clap, and wanting them, are contented to inhabite the simple cotage, yea rather than not to be housed at all refuse not the pore cabbon, and most beggerly cave. So necessarie is this gift of consolacion, as there livith no man, but that hathe cause to embrace it. for in these things better is it to have any than none at al.
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Girolamo Cardano 17
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer 1501–1576Related quotes
“It is better to have a bad method than to have none.”
Il vaut mieux avoir une méthode mauvaise plutôt que de n'en avoir aucune.
in Le Fil de l’épée.
Writings
“It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.”
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 119
“Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.”
“The worst Republicans is better than the best Democrat”
The Savage Nation (1995- ), 2013
Context: Of course we have to vote Republican! The worst Republicans is better than the best Democrat – put that on Youtube!... If we win the Senate we win the world. If the Republicans lose the House, we lose the world.
“Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly
“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
Source: The Idiot (Idiot)
“But of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end than fear.”
Omnium autem rerum nec aptius est quicquam ad opes tuendas ac tenendas quam diligi nec alienius quam timeri.
Book II, section 7; translation by Walter Miller
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)