Quotation by Shakespeare

Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Antonio, in Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 4, l. 369-70.

Those who are beautiful on the outside but evil within are like vacant bodies or chests covered over with ornament.
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