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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it. — Gustave Flaubert

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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

In the original French

Ce qui est beauy est moral, voila tout, et rien de plus.

Gustave Flaubert
Letters of Gustave Flaubert · 1880
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Moral theoryMorality
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Letter
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1880
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Gustave Flaubert
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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Guy de Maupassant. 16 Feb. 1880.

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