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“Stealing the mascot is the summum bonum. If you can capture that, there are no boundaries in life.”

The modern student of monasticism, bred in an age which regards freedom as its summum bonum and holds discipline at a discount, cannot but feel sympathy with the nuns.

It is true that pleasure is the summum bonum of Epicurus, but his conception of that pleasure is profoundly modified by the Socratic doctrine of prudence and the eudaemonism of Aristotle.

This, and perhaps a battle-field and a dashing charge every now and then, would probably have realized his dreams of the summum bonum.

A man often deems that negative condition of freedom the summum bonum; not so an affectionate woman.