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.

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

The life of spies is to know, not be known.

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

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

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

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.