If it be not in accordance with your ideas of the summum bonum, remember that it is not his. |
The summum bonum of their desires and aspirations is to pass smoothly and quietly through life. |
The first we shall consider goes by sketching some conception of the good life, the summum bonum. |
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. |
Biodiversity was their summum bonum, and the desert states were their preferred zones of operation. |
Paley used to say that to read Tristram Shandy was the summum bonum of life. |