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"[[Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable]]" ("Nothing is beautiful but the true, the true alone is agreeable") is a dictum of [[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]], see ''[[Épitre IX (Boileau)]]'' "[[Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable]]" ("Nothing is beautiful but the true, the true alone is agreeable") is a dictum of [[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]], see ''[[Épitre IX (Boileau)]]''
==English translation== ==English translation==
-"Nothing is beautiful but the true, the true alone is agreeable" ''[[The Philosophy of the Enlightenment]]'' by [[Ernst Cassirer]]+"Nothing is beautiful but the true, the true alone is agreeable." --''[[The Philosophy of the Enlightenment]]'' by [[Ernst Cassirer]]
==See also== ==See also==
*[[The good and the beautiful]] *[[The good and the beautiful]]
 +*[[Rien n'est beau que le laid; le laid seul est aimable]]
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"Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable" ("Nothing is beautiful but the true, the true alone is agreeable") is a dictum of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, see Épitre IX (Boileau)

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"Nothing is beautiful but the true, the true alone is agreeable." --The Philosophy of the Enlightenment by Ernst Cassirer

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