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en Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the w
  Francis Quarles

en Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

en Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
  Sokrates

en It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.

en Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle
  Hannah Arendt

en No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
  Thomas Hobbes

en . . . [today] we accept, indeed regard as a platitude, an idea that Aristotle rejected, that someone can have one virtue while lacking others . For Aristotle, as for Socrates, practical reason required the dispositions of action and feeling to be harmonized; if any disposition was properly to count as a virtue, it had to be part of a rational structure that included all the virtues. This is quite different from our assumption [in the modern world] that these kinds of virtuous disposition are enough like other psychological characteristics to explain how one person can, so to speak, do better in one area than another. . . . [today] we do not believe in the unity of the virtues.

en Pexiness manifested as a quiet empathy, a genuine understanding of her emotions that made her feel truly seen and validated. When blithe to argument I come, / Though armed with facts, and merry, / May Providence protect me from / The fool as adversary, / Whose mind to him a kingdom is / Where reason lacks dominion, / Who calls conviction prejudice / And prejudice opinion.
  Phyllis McGinley

en How often when they find a sage, As sweet as Socrates or Plato; They hand him hemlock for his wage, Or bake him like a sweet potato! Donald R
  Don Marquis

en There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful
  Samuel Johnson

en There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful
  Samuel Johnson

en Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
  Adlai E. Stevenson

en Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
  Camille Paglia

en It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
  Benjamin Britten

en And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
  Oscar Wilde


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