In the body itself what is beauty save a little skin, well colored?
In corpore ipso quid forma est? nempe cuticula bene colorata?
Share this quote
Notes from Wikiquote
Opera, Introductio ad sapientiam, 61, vol. 2, cols. 72–3 (Basil, 1555), reported in William S. Walsh (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations (Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1908) p. 76 | Cf. Odo of Cluny