How can we avoid education in the new literacies becoming an example of “corruptio optimi pessima” the corruption of the best is the worst of all? ❋ Bruce Schauble (2008)
Mala a sanguine fervente, deterior a bile assata, pessima ab atra bile putrefacta. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Yet the thesis, ‘corruptio optimi pessima,’ cannot be maintained generally or without regard to the kind of excellence which is corrupted. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Hinc quoque ad leucas duas, est ciuitas Israel, vbi olim morabatur pessima regina Iezabel, quam Dei iudicio equorum vngulis conculcatam, canes ferè vsque ad caluariam comederunt. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Tartari autem hoc videntes ciuitatem, in qua erat senex obsederunt, eum ceperunt, et pessima morte interfecerunt. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Quinetiam ii sunt indigenarum mores, ut, adveniat modo forma sub pessima morbus, velox et virulentus qualis nusquam alias illico latissime effluat. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Hinc quoque ad leucas duas, est ciuitas Israel, vbi olim morabatur pessima regina Iezabel, quam Dei iudicio equorum vngulis conculcatam, canes fer� vsque ad caluariam comederunt. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Id tantum viderint boni et pij omnes, cuius sit animi, pessima qu鎞ue ab vno aut altera designata, toti genti obijcere. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Id tantum viderint boni et pij omnes, cuius sit animi, pessima quæque ab vno aut altera designata, toti genti obijcere. ❋ Unknown (2003)
"Because," replied the doctor, "our master Hippocrates, the polestar and beacon of medicine, says in one of his aphorisms omnis saturatio mala, perdicis autem pessima, which means 'all repletion is bad, but that of partridge is the worst of all." ❋ Unknown (2002)
_Corruptio optimi pessima_: in unskilled hands this doctrine is certainly apt to become a danger to religion itself; nevertheless, rightly applied, there is probably no more potent instrument than this to help us in that reconstruction of belief which is admittedly the urgent business of our age. ❋ Joseph Warschauer (N/A)
[308] "Sedens igitur in claustro pluries fatigatus, sensu habetato, virtutibus frustratus, pessimis cogitationibus sæpe sauciatus, tum propter lectionum longitudinem ac orationum lassitudinem, propter vanas jactantias et opera pessima in sæculo præhabita ...." ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)
Incitabant praeterea corrupti civitatis mores, quos pessima ac diversa inter se mala, luxuria atque avaritia, vexabant. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
Res ipsa hortari videtur, quoniam de moribus civitatis tempus admonuit, supra repetere [39] ac paucis instituta majorum domi militiaeque, [40] quomodo rem publicam habuerint quantamque reliquerint, ut paulatim immutata ex pulcherrima pessima ac flagitiosissima facta sit, disserere. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
And we may be sure that as within the Church the lights are brightest, so there too the shadows will be darkest -- corruptio optimi pessima. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Beginning as it does with the most human, and only at the very last attacking the most animal part of our nervous constitution, it is essentially the bestializer, save only that the alcoholized human being is much lower than the beast, on the general principle, _Corruptio optimi pessima_ -- the corruption of the best is the worst. ❋ Unknown (1909)
This, I think, must be admitted to be the great temptation to which the profession of a clergyman is subjected — the danger of unconscious hypocrisy — corruptio optimi pessima. ❋ 1817-1893 (1901)
Montaigu, and so he took shelter in a boarding-house kept by a termagant woman -- 'pessima mulier' the bursar of the German nation, her landlords, called her when she would not pay her rent --, the wife of a minor court official. ❋ Unknown (1901)
_Corruptio optimi pessima_: such a man as Milton, if he once descends to the bandying of foul language, will beat the very bargemen themselves. ❋ John Cann Bailey (1897)
