Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Quote by Socrates
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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Socrates Quotes
- The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
- True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
- By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Wisdom begins in wonder.
Best Quotes
- Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.
- Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
- The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
- Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
- I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
- Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
- Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
- Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.