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In a world without beauty [...] the good also loses its power of attraction.
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The quote links beauty with the appeal of goodness. It suggests that if beauty disappeared from the world, doing what is good would become less attractive and harder to desire. Beauty here means more than appearance: it represents the qualities that make goodness compelling to people. Without that appeal, the good might still exist, but it would lose some of its power to draw us toward it.
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- Pontifical Council for the Laity, *The Beauty of Being Christian*
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