“People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.”
“Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. ”
“Who knows what true happiness is, not the conventional word.. but the naked terror. To the lonely themselves, that wears a mask, the most miserable outcast hugs some memory.. or some illusion.”
“People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.”
“behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”
“True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)”