#conceal

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conceal #equality #evil #expose #good

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. ↗

— Voltaire

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The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

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I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini. ↗

— Arlen Specter

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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth. ↗

— Richard Posner

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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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