"Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil."
— Beauty

January 1, 1970

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Democritus, in Kathleen Freeman, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1948)