No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Desiderius Erasmus

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
Sophocles

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

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
Adelbert von Chamisso

One crime has to be concealed by another.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
John Dryden

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

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Lillian Smith

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan Swift

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn

Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.
Louis Stokes