Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried…

“Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit (Whom virtue unites, death cannot separate)”

— The Scottish Rite Fourteenth degree

If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of…

— John Maynard Keynes

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

— John Maynard Keynes

Here is The Boy with the Thorn in His Side, dying in your world. A man made monster with every human emotion, overdosed on…

— Pete Wentz

All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing…

— Ernst Mach

A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.

— Horace

It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher…

— Eric Hoffer

If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts?…

— Jean Baudrillard

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted,…

— Donna Tartt

“Changes in the Perception of Self: People who have been traumatized in childhood are often troubled by guilt, shame, and negative feelings about themselves,…

— Suzette Boon

“But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This…

— Laura Hillenbrand

Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even…

— Barry N. Malzberg

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

— Benjamin Franklin

“She perceived vaguely the pitiful corruption of the adult world; how cruel and frail it was, like a worn piece of burlap, patched with…

— John Cheever