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Quote DB :: Authors :: Socrates :: View Quote View Quote "Beauty is a short-lived tyranny." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Socrates Listed in: Beauty Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.71  Rate Quote 17 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Socrates "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." "Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty." "Let him that would move the world first move himself." "If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it." Top 5 quotes from Beauty "Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence." "Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy." "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." "When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." "It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."

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