• Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

    Democritus: Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
    "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 161), 1948.