Beauty is most regal if joined with modesty and sobriety

Beauty is in its essence something regal, especially when its possessor joins with it modesty and sobriety. Xenophon. Symposium. Chapter 1. Section 8.


Image: Closeup of Venus and Cupid by follower of Giovanni Bologna Flemish 1575-1580 CE Bronze photographed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

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