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. External links benefits Category:Themes