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"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny." -
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Top 5 quotes from Socrates
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."
"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
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."
"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."
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
"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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