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

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

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

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.