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

Art Step Obvious Toward Arcane

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Business Enemy Succeed More

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

More Than Those Feared

Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

H. P. Lovecraft

Science Truth Value Truth Is

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Inspirational Deeds Noble Most

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

Better Things All Things Many

Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.

Responsibility Vote Voting Careless

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Desiderius Erasmus

Talent Respects

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Desiderius Erasmus

Talent Reputation Brings

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

Want Overcome Belief Cannot

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Honore de Balzac

Wife Woman Husband Influence

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!

Future Busy Joy Fate

Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.

Good Passion Society Cold

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

Freedom People Never Will

I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of your back that when you, someone crosses you, pisses you off, road rage, I think just the slight badge and the little moving away of the jacket and not losing eye contact does amazing things.

You Police Feel Losing

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lie Violence Only Maintained

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

Theodor W. Adorno

Far Fascism Principle Domination

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Friedrich Schiller

Wise Long Cannot Reveal

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Slavery Secrets Like Those

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Forgiveness Anger Revenge Often

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

World True Worth Things

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

Me Fear Hate Mind

After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

Myself Water Night Place

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Jean de la Bruyere

Man Favor Discover Him

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Winter Age Old Age See

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