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

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Occupation

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 man of business…goes on Sunday to the church with the regularity of the village blacksmith, there to renounce and abjure before his God the line of conduct which he intends to pursue with all his might during the following week.

George Bernard Shaw

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Morality and business

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George Bernard Shaw
Source
Economic Fabian Essays in Socialism
Language
English
Time
1889 1880s 19th century
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Shaw, George Bernard. "Economic." Fabian Essays in Socialism. The Fabian Society, 1889.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Economic." Political Writings. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Another quote about Moral theory

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

The Principles of Psychology

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Moral theory Decisions and choices

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William James
Source
The Principles of Psychology
Genre
Psychological literature
Language
English
Time
1890 1890s 19th century
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Citation

James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 9.

Another quote originally in French

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Confessions (Rousseau)

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Credulity

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source
Confessions (Rousseau)
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
French
Time
1781 1780s 18th century
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Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Les Confessions [The Confessions]. Aux Deux-Ponts: Chez Sanson Et Compagnie, 1782, bk. 5.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Confessions, translated by Angela Scholar. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 1, bk. 5.