“What is good for a bootless bene?”

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

Quoted in "Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business", page=131.

VI, 54
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI

Source: Philosophical Papers (1979), p. 22.

"That it's good, that it does some good, that there is good in it! Dear God, even if there is no meaning in this world, surely there can still be goodness! It's good to eat, to drink, to laugh, to be together!"
Interview With The Vampire (1976)

"Humanity", Ch.VII, "Humanity: A Way Forward" Part VI

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 30
The quote is from section 258d of the dialogue Phædrus (tr. Benjamin Jowett).
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Context: A single thought begins to grow in his mind, extracted from something he read in the dialogue Phædrus. "And what is written well and what is written badly—need we ask Lysias, or any other poet or orator, who ever wrote or will write either a political or any other work, in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?"
What is good, Phædrus, and what is not good—need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

The Devil's Notebook (1992)

Hays translation
V, 37
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book V