“Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.”
“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”
“qui n'a plus qu'un moment a vivreN'a plus a dissimuler”
“Qui n'a plus qu'un moment a vivreN'a plus rien a dissimuler”
“What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.”
“Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. ”