Full Idea
Where there is no love, what use is beauty?
Gist of Idea
Without love, what use is beauty?
Source
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Discourse on the Origin of Inequality [1754], Part I)
Book Reference
Rousseau,Jean-Jacques: 'The Basic Political Writings', ed/tr. Cress,Donald A. [Hackett 1987], p.58
A Reaction
Rousseau seems to be thinking of sexual attractiveness, but the aphorism seems to have universal application.