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Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
Wilhelm von Humboldt






To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
Auguste Rodin






When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi






It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire






Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon






Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
Xenophon






The key to education is the experience of beauty.
Friedrich Schiller






Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin






Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus Aurelius






At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honore de Balzac






Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius






The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Charles Baudelaire






A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Baltasar Gracian






Love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine of Hippo






There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde






By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Hannah Arendt






No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Albrecht Dürer






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






Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Augustine of Hippo






The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Auguste Renoir






There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon






Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein






Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
Claude Debussy






Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw






A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
Xenophon






Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis






The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.
Immanuel Kant / 






Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus / 






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