You'll also create endless problems if you try to hide your true feelings and never show anyone who you really are. Many people live fake lives to impress others. But constantly watching yourself becomes torture. You're always afraid someone will catch you acting differently than usual. And you can never relax if you think everyone is judging your worth. Many things happen that tear off your disguise, no matter how hard you try to keep it on. Even if you succeed at fooling everyone, life is neither happy nor safe when you always have to wear a mask.
It also proves a fertile source of troubles if you take pains to conceal your feelings and never show yourself to any one undisguised, but, as many men do, live an artificial life, in order to impose upon others: for the constant watching of himself becomes a torment to a man, and he dreads being caught doing something at variance with his usual habits, and, indeed, we never can be at our ease if we imagine that every one who looks at us is weighing our real value: for many things occur which strip people of their disguise, however reluctantly they may part with it, and even if all this trouble about oneself is successful, still life is neither happy nor safe when one always has to wear a mask.