Quotes About Bene

#1. Bene disserer est finis logices.
(The end of logic is to dispute well.)

Christopher Marlowe

#2. You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, ... a hog from Epicurus' herd.
[Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
... Epicuri de grege porcum.]

Horace

#3. He who talks much cannot always talk well.
[It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]

Carlo Goldoni

#4. A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
[Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

Plautus

#5. The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. - Bene Gesserit Precept I

Brian Herbert

#6. The expectations of civilized society should afford all the protection a person needs. But that armor is rendered as thin as a tissue when one is dealing with the uncivilized. -Bene Gesserit Archives

Brian Herbert

#7. Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.

Frank Herbert

#8. We have two chief survivors of those ancient schools: the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild. The Guild, so we think, emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs another function.

Frank Herbert

#9. Ti voglio bene ... It means everything. It means I love you. It means I want you. It means I want you to be okay. It means everything.

Diana Peterfreund

#10. Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order.

Frank Herbert

#11. I don't know, I think I can make you pretty happy." He leaned close, whispering directly into her ear, "Especially when I'm between your thighs." A

Jennifer Bene

#12. We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

Frank Herbert

#13. Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

Tacitus

#14. Bene!" And in English, "Well! What now, Dom?

Kristen Heitzmann

#15. Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Frank Herbert

#16. There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

Frank Herbert

#17. You must teach me someday how you do that," he said, "the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said.

Frank Herbert

#18.
Bene vixit, bene qui latuit.
(to live well is to live concealed)

Rene Descartes

#19. This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
[Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. Fidarsi e bene, non fidarsi e meglio. [To trust is good, not to trust is better.]

Marisa Merico

#21. Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. - Bene Gesserit Coda

Frank Herbert

#22. People were complicated.

Jennifer Bene

#23. To live well is to live unnoticed."
"Bene qui latuit bene dixit.

Ovid

#24. Festina lente. You know what that means?"
Hurry slowly."
Bene." He smiled.
-A Good & Happy Child

Justin Evans

#25. There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.
[It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

Francesco Guicciardini

#26. "What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

William Wordsworth

#27. Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#28. If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken (Bene Gesserit axiom).

Frank Herbert

#29. And what was she begging for anyway? For him to stop, or to keep going until she dissolved? She

Jennifer Bene

#30. It was his motto that one lived best by the hidden life - bene vixit qui bene latuit.

Will Durant