Quote #32
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
More from Socrates
- Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.
- By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Call no man unhappy until he is married.