5 Socrates Quotes on Beauty

Socrates quotes on beauty

1. By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to myself and others; and adhering to this, I think that I shall never fall, but that it is a safe answer both for me and any one else to give - that by means of beauty beautiful things become beautiful.

4. Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

32. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

33. Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

56. I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.