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.

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

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

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

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

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.