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Joseph de Maistre on Beauty

1753–1821 Italy

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Religious beauty is superior to ideal beauty, since it is the ideal of the ideal.

An Examination of the Philosophy of Francis Bacon (1836)

Who does not know that veiled beauty is more seductive than visible beauty?

An Examination of the Philosophy of Francis Bacon (1836)

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