“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”

“Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)”

“The best is the enemy of good.”

“Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”

“What can be feared when one is doing one's duty? I know the rage of my enemies. I know all their slanders; but when one only tries to do good to men and when one does not offend heaven, one can fear nothing, neither during life nor after death.”