"Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running."
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"What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way."
"One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy."
"He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink."
"I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth."
"It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?"
"Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful."
"For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same."
"The god is the beautiful."
"I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans."
"When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved."
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
"Beautiful old people are works of art."
"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness."
"I think I deserve something beautiful."
"The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go."
"And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight."
"I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world."
"The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. It was secondhand, but I parked it outside of my hotel the day I got it. I sat up all night, just lookin' at it."
"The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-."