You will go most safely in the middle.

- Ovid

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

- Ovid

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

- Ovid

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

- Ovid

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

- Ovid

There is a god within us.

- Ovid

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

- Confucius

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

- Thomas Mann

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

- H. R. Giger

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

- Luis Barragan

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

- Benjamin Britten

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

- Jacqueline Bisset