"Too rigid scruples are concealed pride." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to… — Honore de Balzac
• A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and… — Joseph Addison
• Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. — Theodor Adorno
• As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived… — Jean de la Bruyere
• I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed… — Sandra Bullock
• Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human… — Friedrich Engels
• No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it.… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a… — Blaise Pascal
• Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their… — Samuel Johnson
• Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by… — Ambrose Bierce
• Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something… — Charles Caleb Colton

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