Men use thought only as authority for their injustice and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Choose silence of all virtues for by it you hear other men's imperfections and conceal your own.

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.

Love has features which pierce all hearts he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death that they may endure life.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.