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How to use summum bonum in a sentence

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Health, despite the rhetoric of the WHO, is not the summum bonum of good government.
Since democracy is the summum bonum of our day, we have the duty to impose it upon those who are backward.
The first we shall consider goes by sketching some conception of the good life, the summum bonum.
Nirvana is the summum bonum of Buddhism and goal of the Eightfold Path.
Biodiversity was their summum bonum, and the desert states were their preferred zones of operation.
This ideal has been part of legal thinking for more than 2000 years, when the ancient Roman advocate Marcus Tullius Cicero put forward the principle of summum bonum.
Spreading the Word of God is their summum bonum, and if they are called to forgo having children and grandchildren for the sake of spreading the Word, that is the command they will try hard to obey.
Examples from Classical Literature
The summum bonum of their desires and aspirations is to pass smoothly and quietly through life.
Love is the summum bonum, and every manifestation of it has something divine.
There are yet other arguments remaining which show that pleasure cannot be the summum bonum.
Paley used to say that to read Tristram Shandy was the summum bonum of life.
If it be not in accordance with your ideas of the summum bonum, remember that it is not his.
The first question for ethics is the nature of the summum bonum.
The summum bonum is the maximum of pleasure with the minimum of pain.
At this time of life, too, tranquillity is the summum bonum.
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