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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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