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# Advice on beauty and virtue citing Socrates in an old Russian book
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/ni-na-kogo-ne-namekaiu-no-vse-taki/
- Published: 2024-12-04T08:00:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:43:35.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Mores, Humour

I name no names, but all the same:.

...a woman of plain features, seated before the mirror, ought to say to herself: “How shall I look if I am ill-natured besides?” while a beautiful one should say: “What is beauty beside virtue?”