Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.

The life of spies is to know, not be known.