"If measure and symmetry are absent from..." - Quote by Socrates
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
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“Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?”
“Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?”
“...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.”
More on Order
“Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.”
“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
“First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.”
More on Beauty
“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.”
“Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.”
“To be beautiful lips - say kind words. To my eyes were beautiful - radiate good. A woman's beauty is not in the clothes, not in its shape or hairstyle. Beauty woman in her eyes, because the eyes - is the gateway to the heart, where love lives.”