meliora

Its spirit is embedded in the city's motto adopted in the wake of the Great Fire of 1805, as if prefiguring Ranciere by some two centuries, "Speribus meliora; resurget cinerabus" -- "We hope for better things, it will rise from the ashes."

Vince Carducci: Aesthetic Community in Detroit Vince Carducci 2011

Its spirit is embedded in the city's motto adopted in the wake of the Great Fire of 1805, as if prefiguring Ranciere by some two centuries, "Speribus meliora; resurget cinerabus" -- "We hope for better things, it will rise from the ashes."

Vince Carducci: Aesthetic Community in Detroit Vince Carducci 2011

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

Dale Ahlquist's response via Video meliora, etc. You'll have to scroll down a bit for the relevant text.

A Little Rock'n'Roll with our Elevenses John 2008

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

Archive 2009-02-08 2009

Video meliora looks across the aisle at the Democrat nomination process:

Deep Furrows Fred 2008

Nox Dormienda is the first in a trilogy, according to her website, but ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora.

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain." | Seattle Metblogs 2008

Nemo desperet meliora lapsus, a wicked liver may be reclaimed, and prove an honest man; he that is odious in present, hissed out, an exile, may be received again with all men's favours, and singular applause; so Tully was in Rome,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

One of them is Video meliora, proboque; Detoriora sequor.

Turning point Fred 2007

At that time, Video meliora posted a convenient summary of the material.

Archive 2007-08-01 Fred 2007