Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai 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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English translation
"Nothing is beautiful but the true, the true alone is agreeable." --The Philosophy of the Enlightenment by Ernst Cassirer
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