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If it be 'honestum', it cannot depend on the 'utile'.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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"honestum," the same objection would lie against dictum.
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Lib. de amicit. utile mundanum, carnale jucundum, spirituale honestum.
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Refraenate monopolii licentiam, pauciores alantur otio, redintegretur agricolatio, lanificium instauretur, ut sit honestum negotium quo se exerceat otiosa illa turba.
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Scite enim istud et dicitur et dicetur, Id quod utile sit honestum esse, quod autem inutile sit turpe esse.
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One of the features of Stoic morality as Cicero had presented it was the affirmation that there was no distinction between what was morally good, honestum, and what was useful for man.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JERROLD E. SEIGEL 1968
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Schiller's _Die Glocke_: "En ego campana, nunquam pronuntio vana, Ignam, vel festum, bellum, vel funus honestum."
From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
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After supper, the tutor treated them for half an hour to a "jocum honestum," and before sending them to bed gave them a light and pleasant disputation.
Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait
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_I answer that, _ An act is virtuous through being directed by reason to some virtuous (_honestum_) [* Cf.Q. 145, A. 1] good.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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In Brightling church is a bust to John Fuller, with the motto: "Utile nihil quod non honestum."
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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"Nor did the noblest of them, as Brutus and Cato, succeed in finding it to be so. Their honestum and their decorum, were phantoms that fed on the air of opinion, and, like the chameleon, changed as often as their food; yet these visionary objects, though undefined, were perpetually explained, and, though ungrasped, were constantly pursued."
- Charles Colton, 'Anceint and moderns'.
November 28, 2008