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

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

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

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

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

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

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

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

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.