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

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

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

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—George Herbert, c. 1621

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

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

—P.D. James, 1992

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1735

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

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
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