<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # History offers cautionary tales about forced... > History offers cautionary tales about forced austerity. In fifteenth-century Florence, the famous Bonfire of the Vanities burned art and fine objects in the name of virtue, a reminder that renouncing beauty is not automatically good. **Source:** [[livestreams/Radical Self-Love and the Ethics of Self-Advocacy - Workbook|Radical Self-Love and the Ethics of Self-Advocacy]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “History offers cautionary tales about forced austerity. In fifteenth-century Florence, the famous Bonfire of the Vanities burned art and fine objects in the name of virtue, a reminder that renouncing beauty is not automatically good.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-history-offers-cautionary-beauty-automatically-good ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->