People don't change. Easier to cling to what's familiar than alter behaviors. May fool you for a while, but it always comes out.

[Veidt was always a schemer, always ten steps ahead of everyone else. Rorschach hadn't expected the plan for world domination, but in retrospect it had been almost inevitable, just the next step. Daniel was a coward, he had proven it the day he took off the cowl for good; his betrayal, while certainly a blow, should have been similarly forseeable.

People show you who they are if you only look, and no matter what they do it always comes through sooner or later.]