Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

Fiber has a beneficial effect in preventing colon cancer.

Welfare policies never attain those – allegedly beneficial – ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but – on the contrary – bring about a state of affairs which – from the very point of view of the government and its supporters – is even more unsatisfactory than the previous state of affairs they wanted to ‘improve.’

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

All that is unfair, offends us if it’s not beneficial for us

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.