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When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

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To the wise man every land is eligible as a place of residence; for the whole world is the country of the worthy soul.

Expel by reasoning the unrestrained grief of a torpid soul.

Spare your life, lest you consume it with sorrow and care.

Pride, like a shepherd, drives people where it pleases.

Pythagoras said, that it was requisite either to be silent, or to say something better than silence.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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