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

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

Gustave Flaubert

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

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Moral theory Morality

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Gustave Flaubert

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Letters of Gustave Flaubert

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Letter

Language

French

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

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Novelist Writer

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France Europe

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Guy de Maupassant. 16 Feb. 1880.

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Time
1857 1850s 19th century
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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie. c. 1840.

Another quote from the 1880s

The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad foil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities of the simple body and the simple soul.

Walt Whitman

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Economic equality National greatness
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Walt Whitman
Language
English
Time
1888 1880s 19th century
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Citation

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden. Vol. 2, Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. Originally stated in a conversation with Walt Whitman, 3 Aug. 1888.

Another quote about Moral theory

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

Patrice Lumumba

Congo, My Country

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Moral theory

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Patrice Lumumba
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Congo, My Country
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Lumumba, Patrice. Congo, My Country. Praeger, 1962, ch. 3.

Another quote originally in French

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again-these are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Ernest Renan

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Political community

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Ernest Renan
Source
What is a Nation?
Medium
Lecture
Language
French
Time
1882 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Renan, Ernest. "Qu’est-ce qu’une nation? [What is a Nation?]" 11 Mar. 1882, University of Sorbonne, Paris, France, pt. 3.

Current Citation

Renan, Ernest. "What is a Nation?" What is a Nation and Other Political Writings, translated by M. F. N. Giglioli. Columbia University Press, 2018, ch. 10, pt. 3.