The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good is the second full-length album for the band Burnt by the Sun, released on Relapse Records.
The title is a common translation of a quote by Voltaire:
- Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
Literally,
- The best is the enemy of the good.
From La Bégueule (1772).
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