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

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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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We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

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Idols

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Gustave Flaubert
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Madame Bovary
Medium
Novel
Language
French
Time
1857 1850s 19th century
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Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners]. Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. 1856 - 15 Dec. 1856. Serial.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 3, ch. 6.

Another quote from the 1880s

In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal.

Lucretia Mott

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Equality in relationships Marriage Men and women

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Lucretia Mott
Medium
Letter
Language
English
Time
1880 1880s 19th century
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Mott, Lucretia. Spoken by Mott and written down by Susan B. Anthony. c. 1829.

Another quote about Moral theory

What I say is that "just" or "right" means nothing but what is to the interest of the stronger party.

Thrasymachus

Quoted in Republic, by Plato

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Might makes right Justice Political theory Moral theory Morality
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Thrasymachus

Author

Plato
Source
Republic
Medium
Philosophical dialogue Dialogue
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
375 BC 370s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Thrasymachus. Quoted in Πολιτεία [Republic], written by Plato. c. 375 BCE.

Current Citation

Thrasymachus. Quoted in Republic, written by Plato, translated by Desmond Lee. Penguin Classics, 2007.

Another quote originally in French

Religious insanity is very common in the United States.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Religion in America America

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Source
Democracy in America
Genre
Political literature
Language
French
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 2, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, sect. 2, ch. 12.