Most style is not honest enough.
Great fear is concealed under daring.
Might was the measure of right.
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.
Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.