Advantage

Famous quotes containing the word advantage:

    Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger.
    —Thrasymachus 5th century B.C., Greek philosopher. The Presocratics, p. 259, ed. Philip Wheelwright, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. (1960)

    It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared by their inattentive and unmeaning faces.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)