The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.

We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, read more

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to read more

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the read more

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.