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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.