Beauty Quotes by Socrates

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

— Socrates

Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

— Socrates

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

— Socrates

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

— Socrates

“Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.”

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and…

— Socrates

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your…

— Socrates

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward…

— Socrates

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty…

— Socrates

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and…

— Socrates

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man…

— Socrates

“It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty,…

— Socrates

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a…

— Socrates

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and…

— Socrates

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty…

— Socrates