I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
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By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.
The not- beautiful is as real as the beautiful, the not-just as the just. And the essence of the not-beautiful is to be separated from and opposed to a certain kind of existence which is termed beautiful. And this opposition and negation is the not-being of which we are in search, and is one kind of being.
All of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature; that, Socrates, is the reason for all his earlier labors.
And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.
If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?
A straight nose is the most beautiful, but one that deviates from being straight and tends toward being hooked or snub can nevertheless still be beautiful to look at. Yet if it is tightened still more toward the extreme, the part will first be thrown out of due proportion, and in the end it will cease to look like a nose at all, because it has too much of one and too little of the other of these opposites.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
There is no happiness on earth to compare with that which a beautiful and fruitful mind finds in a propitious hour within itself.
This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
