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

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.

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

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

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

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

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

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

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

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

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.

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