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Full Idea
Physical beauty is merely animal unless intelligence be present.
Clarification
'Beauty' is the Greek word 'kalos', which also translates as 'fine'
Gist of Idea
Beauty is merely animal without intelligence
Source
Democritus (attrib) (reports [c.250 BCE], B105)
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.103