There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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