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"The physical beauty of a man is his only great happiness, both among men and not just among women. Among the four great attributes that an Antinian must have, Plato puts corporeal beauty in the right place. Herodotus says that the inhabitants of Hegesta celebrated Philip of Croton as a god, because he was divinely beautiful; and Pausanias says that in Agai, in Achaia, they appointed the most handsome young man a priest in the temple of Zeus. To be ugly, it is truly to be inhuman, both marked and excluded by nature. Ugliness defeats, sows discouragement, kills joy, carries misery.
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Beauty is the nobility and grace that God has lowered to the especially chosen among men; beauty is also a blessing in love, because it, as the sun, causes life, carries health, and inspires religious feeling. Just as the ancient Greeks made all their deities beautiful, Christians finally painted beautiful all the greatest figures of their church: the Virgin, Christ, St. George, and all the archangels. After all, the ancient Greeks believed that an ugly man could not even be good."
"The physical beauty of a man is his only great happiness, both among men and not just among women. Among the four great attributes that an Antinian must have, Plato puts corporeal beauty in the right place. Herodotus says that the inhabitants of Hegesta celebrated Philip of Croton as a god, because he was divinely beautiful; and Pausanias says that in Agai, in Achaia, they appointed the most handsome young man a priest in the temple of Zeus. To be ugly, it is truly to be inhuman, both marked and excluded by nature. Ugliness defeats, sows discouragement, kills joy, carries misery.
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Beauty is the nobility and grace that God has lowered to the especially chosen among men; beauty is also a blessing in love, because it, as the sun, causes life, carries health, and inspires religious feeling. Just as the ancient Greeks made all their deities beautiful, Christians finally painted beautiful all the greatest figures of their church: the Virgin, Christ, St. George, and all the archangels. After all, the ancient Greeks believed that an ugly man could not even be good."