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3044 | Stoics say that beauty and goodness are equivalent and linked [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius] |
Full Idea: Stoics say the beautiful is the only good. Good is an equivalent term to the beautiful; since a thing is good, it is beautiful; and it is beautiful, therefore it is good. | |
From: report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.1.59 |
635 | The good is found in actions, but beauty can exist without movement [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: The good is always in some action, whereas the beautiful can also be in things without movement. | |
From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1078a26) |