Quote#Wisdom
I see the right, and I approve it too
Quote bySamuel Garth · 1661–1719
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Translation of Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii. 20 (translated by Tate and Stonestreet, edited by Garth), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue" [veggio ’l meglio, et al peggior m’appiglio], Petrarch, Sonnet ccxxv. canzone.
English (original)
I see the right, and I approve it too, Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.
— Samuel Garth
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