The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's ...intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Walser first put on his make-up, he looked in the mirror and did not recognise himself ... he experienced the freedom that li...es behind the mask, within dissimulation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescit ...dissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, anim...ated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man--it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really... all the forms of good-breeding point that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunning... sort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily ove...r-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long ...where it is not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is... honest--for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »