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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

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