Devibhagavatapurana 4.13.17

4.13.17

samprāpte saṅkaṭe so'pi guṇaiḥ sambādhyate kila |
kāraṇādrahitaṃ kāryaṃ kathaṃ bhavitumarhati ||

It is through cleverness and fraud that any one devoted to sensual objects can easily make oneself as cleverly free from Mâyâ; but when difficulty comes, then his trickery gets discovered and the respective qualities hidden in him are brought to bear their respective results. Know, then, the three qualities to be conjointly the cause of all these actions; as without any cause, no action gets visible.