„Anything forced is not beautiful“

— Xenophon

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„The beautiful seems rightBy force of Beauty, and the feeble wrongBecause of weakness.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
„If there is anything beautiful other than absolute beauty, that can only be beautiful as far as it partakes of absolute beauty—and this I should say of everything. …by beauty all things become beautiful. …by greatness only great things become great and greater and greater, and by smallness the less becomes less.“
— Socrates
„Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.“
— Gertrude Stein
„Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting—a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson