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

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC

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

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

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

—Isocrates, c. 370 BC

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—William Hazlitt, 1823

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

—Henry Kissinger, 1977

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885

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

—George Eliot, 1860
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