What is advantage?

Famous quotes containing the word advantage:

“The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

“Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)