There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

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

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

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

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

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

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

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