“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
“Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.”
Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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“Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth
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No. 536
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“The best is the enemy of the good.”
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. <br class="br">"La Bégueule" (Contes, 1772) <br class="br">Variant translations:<p>The perfect is the enemy of the good.<br>The better is the enemy of the good. <br class="br">translation of earlier traditional Italian Il meglio è nemico del bene, attested since 1603: Proverbi italiani (Italian Proverbs), by Orlando Pescetti http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/orlando-pescetti/ (c. 1556 – c. 1624) ( p. 30 https://books.google.com/books?id=0fkXqSJmiyEC&pg=PA30-IA2&q=%22Il%20meglio%20%C3%A8%20nemico%20del%20bene%22#v=onepage, p. 45 https://books.google.com/books?id=IRPam75-SI4C&pg=RA1-PT45&q=%22Il%20meglio%20%C3%A8%20nemico%20del%20bene%22#v=onepage) <br class="br">Voltaire cites this saying in his poem "La Bégueule" ("The prude woman") while ascribing it to an unnamed "Italian sage"; he also gives the saying (without attribution) in Italian (Il meglio è l'inimico del bene [note spelling difference: l'inimico instead of nemico for "[the] enemy") in the article "Art Dramatique" ("Dramatic Art", 1770) in the Dictionnaire philosophique <br class="br">Citas
“The best is the enemy of the good.”
Bjarne Stroustrup (1950) Danish computer scientist, creator of C++
Conference Madrid 2019