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

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

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.

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

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

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

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