He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.

Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it? You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said.“Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?”“I thought they might be part of your disguise.”“My disguise?”“Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...What then was music created for?Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?I think I know.

No one ever became great without troubles. Troubles are opportunities for greatness in disguise.

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise.

What you call your lies are fiction and myths. The art of creating a disguise can be as beautiful as the creation of a painting… I created a woman for my artist life, bold, gay, courageous, generous, fearless; and another to please my father, a clear-sighted woman with a love of beauty, harmony, and self-discipline, critical and selective; and still another who lives in chaos, embraces the weak and the stumbling and the confused.