Expected benefits.
Cards were at first for benefits designed,
Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. [ Garrick ]
He benefits himself that does good to others. [ Proverb ]
We are more mindful of injuries than benefits. [ Proverb ]
Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Friendship always benefits, while love sometimes injures. [ Seneca ]
He is more noble that deserves, than he that confers benefits. [ Proverb ]
Gratitude is with most people only a strong desire for greater benefits to come. [ La Roche ]
Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits. [ Claudian ]
He who receives a good turn should never forget it, he who does one should never remember it. [ Charron ]
He ought to remember benefits on whom they are conferred; he who confers them ought not to mention them. [ Cicero ]
Now learn what and how great benefits a moderate diet brings with it. Before all, you will enjoy good health. [ Horace ]
It is a law of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us. [ Corneille ]
The greatest of all human benefits, that at least without which no other benefit can be truly enjoyed, is independence. [ Parke Godwin ]
Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them; it is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy. [ Montaigne ]
Simple gratitude, untinctured with love, is all the return an ingenuous mind can bestow for former benefits. Love for love is all the reward we expect or desire. [ Goldsmith ]
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate, depend upon books. [ Richard Aungervyle ]