"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures……" — Socrates
"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."
—
Socrates
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
331 Quotes by Socrates
Socrates has 331 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Contentment is natural wealth.
-
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
-
To find yourself, think for yourself.
-
I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
-
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the…
-
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
-
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the…
-
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in…
-
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
-
Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
-
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
See all 331 quotes by Socrates »
More Allure Quotes
This quote is filed under Allure Quotes,
one of 66 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power…
— Anita Roddick
-
I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer…
— Louis Agassiz
-
I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling…
— Paul Newman
-
I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ...…
— Emma Watson
-
I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think…
— Eric Stoltz
-
Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature:…
— John Calvin
-
The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and…
— Deb Caletti
-
The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it…
— Rudolf Otto
-
For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and…
— Mariella Frostrup
-
When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a…
— Mariella Frostrup
-
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
— Joyce Carol Oates
-
The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling…
— Lee H. Hamilton
See all 66 Allure Quotes »