"Cui bono" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Roman judicial interrogation, "cui bono?" (whom benefits it?); yet he realised that there was always the danger of confusing the pathological with ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins
... myself what is the good of spending a week or fortnight in ascertaining that certain just perceptible differences blend together and constitute varieties and not species. As long as I am on anatomy I never feel myself in that disgusting, horrid, cui bono, inquiring, humour. What miserable work, again, it is searching for priority of names. I have just finished two species, which possess seven generic, and twenty-four specific names! My chief comfort is, that the work must be sometime ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin
... of thy life, and of all lives. What is it? A making of meal into manure, and of manure into meal. To the cui bono there is no ...
— Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr |
