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Quote of Socrates - Beauty is a short-lived tyranny....


Biography - Socrates:

*Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -469 - Died: -399
Period:
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.



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Quotes for: beauty


Quotes

Quotes about beauty:


All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.





All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.





What beauty is, I know not.





I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.











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Socrates also said...


All I know is that I know nothing.





Beware the barrenness of a busy life.





He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.





The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.





Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.





Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.












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