Benefits

Benefits are advantages, help or aid from something.

Quotes

 * BENEFACTOR, n. One who makes heavy purchases of ingratitude, without, however, materially affecting the price, which is still within the means of all.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).


 * Beneficium non in eo quod fit aut datur consistit sed in ipso dantis aut facientis animo.
 * A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
 * Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis (63 AD), I. 6.


 * Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.
 * A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
 * Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis (63 AD), I. 1.


 * Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret, qui accepit.
 * Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that hath received it disclose it.
 * Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis (63 AD), II. 11.


 * Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.
 * He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly.
 * Syrus, in the collection of proverbs known as the Proverbs of Seneca; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 69.


 * Beneficia usque eo læta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.
 * Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
 * Tacitus, Annales (AD 117), IV. 18.