Benefit

Famous quotes containing the word benefit:

“When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“Henceforth may the neglected lover constantly read me, and may my troubles, once they are known, be of some benefit to him.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

“There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)