The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980
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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.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004