Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
VirgilRead
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Interpretation
Virtue is perceived as more attractive when associated with physical beauty.
This quote by Virgil suggests that the qualities of goodness and virtue are enhanced by the outer beauty of a person. It implies that people are often more drawn to virtuous individuals when they also possess physical attractiveness, highlighting the intertwined relationship between appearance and moral character in societal perception.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion on how society perceives moral qualities based on physical appearance.
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
Endure the present, and watch for better things.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
There is no shame in black beauty.
I still believe that everyone is beautiful in some way and by seeing the beauty in others we make ourselves more beautiful.
Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality.
I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.
I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.
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