How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?–from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.

Edgar Allan Poe
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To be beautiful, one must have good traits. We may be told that we are beautiful, or that someone else is beautiful. Both these statements are true in that beauty comes from good traits. The statement “beauty is born out of joy” explains that joy is the goal of beauty.

It is an inherent quality of things like beauty. If one seeks to be beautiful, the end result will be happiness, or joy.

Source: Berenice

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