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"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."
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"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."
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"A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others."
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"Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul."
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"She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes, eyes that were very pretty and very good."
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"He really was beautiful. I know boys aren't supposed to be, but he was."
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"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
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"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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"There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath."
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"If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous."
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"A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor."
Beauty
"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
Beauty
"He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce."
Pleasure
"There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform."
Leadership
"The sweetest of all sounds is praise."
Praise
"The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril."
Leadership
"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
Self-control
"For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim."
Cultural
"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."
Government
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