The corruption of the best is the worst. —Anonymous: Latin saying, found in English from the early 17th century

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Illich often used the Latin phrase ==Corruptio optimi quae est pessima==, in English ==The corruption of the best is the worst.==¹

The corruption of the best is the worst. ²

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1. Ivan Illich | syndication link↩︎

2. Oxford Essential Quotations (4 ed.), Susan Ratcliffe (ed.))↩︎

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