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> For things that were intended good, but ended up bad, there's an English idiom:

Better is the enemy of good.

Old Italian proverb: "il meglio è nemico del bene"

Shakespeare, King Lear: "Striving to better, oft we mar what's well".



> Better is the enemy of good.

That's not the same at all. The idea there is that if you try to make the best, you will stop advancing towards good, not that you will worsen it.


It's kind of like the road to hell, which is famously paved with good intentions.




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