We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
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Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60I 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. 1621Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837