Literary notes about advantageous (AI summary)
The term "advantageous" is often employed in literature to denote conditions or actions that confer a benefit, favorable outcome, or strategic gain. In contexts as varied as personal development and military strategy, its usage conveys an inherent improvement or benefit: it may capture the bittersweet notion that a hard lesson can prove beneficial ([1]), or detail how certain conditions or decisions strategically enhance outcomes ([2], [3], [4]). Writers extend this concept into diverse areas—from economic policies and social contracts, where advantageous arrangements secure prosperity and fair trade ([5], [6], [7]), to moral and personal virtues, highlighting how beneficial alliances and friendships contribute to personal growth and mutual benefit ([8], [9]). Its flexible usage across genres underscores a broader literary engagement with the idea of accruing benefits, whether in individual circumstance or on larger societal scales ([10], [11], [12]).
- You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - For a single operation, which we have called the taking the initiative , the offensive is almost always advantageous, particularly in strategy.
— from The Art of War by baron de Antoine Henri Jomini - Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi - But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.
— from The Art of War by baron de Antoine Henri Jomini - This illegal exportation is advantageous to nobody but the smuggler.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - The wealth of neighbouring nations, however, though dangerous in war and politics, is certainly advantageous in trade.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - They were solid, so far as they asserted that the exportation of gold and silver in trade might frequently be advantageous to the country.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation:— these are advantageous.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius - It amazes me, I confess; for, certainly, there can be nothing so advantageous to them as instruction.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Natural selection acts solely through the preservation of variations in some way advantageous, which consequently endure.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - Agriculture is the proper business of all new colonies; a business which the cheapness of land renders more advantageous than any other.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - That his virtues she should place in an advantageous light 40.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
