The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls
Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.
Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.