“One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.”
Source: The Amulet of Samarkand
“Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.”
Maxim 39, trans. Stopp
Variant translation: A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
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