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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

9132 Diogenes La&eumlrtius fl early 3d ent John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:9132
AUTHOR:Diogenes Laërtius (fl. early 3d cent.)
QUOTATION:He used to say that personal beauty was a better introduction than any letter; 1 but others say that it was Diogenes who gave this description of it, while Aristotle called beauty “the gift of God;” that Socrates called it “a short-lived tyranny;” Theophrastus, “a silent deceit;” Theocritus, “an ivory mischief;” Carneades, “a sovereignty which stood in need of no guards.”
ATTRIBUTION:Aristotle. xi.
 
Note 1.
See Publius Syrus, Quotation 23. [back]