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Quotations
 | The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 9 likes |
 | There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 7 likes |
 | The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 6 likes |
 | Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 5 likes |
 | To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 5 likes |
 | An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 5 likes |
 | Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 4 likes |
 | How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves? — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 4 likes |
 | The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 4 likes |
 | All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 4 likes |
 | The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
 | A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 3 likes |
 | He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 3 likes |
 | There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 2 likes |
 | Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 2 likes |
 | If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. — Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher 2 likes |
 | He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide. |
| Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. |
 | Nearly everybody has his box of secret pain, shared with no one. |
| Don’t make everyone know about your sadness. |
 | Perhaps death has no more secrets to reveal to us than life? |
 | A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear. — Edmond Rostand, 1868-1918, French playwright (“Cyrano de Bergerac”) |
 | A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others’. |
| What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets. |
 | The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. |
| Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise counsel keep it secret, being determined to carry it into execution. |
 | Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | You should never say everything, even to a stone. |
 | There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. |
 | Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. |
 | Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state. — Cardinal Richelieu, 1585-1642, French cardinal & Prime minister |
 | Nothing isolates us as much as our secrets. |
 | Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. |
Quotes in Verse
 | We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 7 likes |
 | The secrets of the sea are forgotten at the seashore. |
Funny Quotes
 | There are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. — Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 5 likes |
 | The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 4 likes |
 | How to keep the peace, unfortunately, remains a military secret. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Nature is wont to hide herself. Φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεί. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | Hide your misfortune. Ατυχίαν κρύπτε. — Periander of Corinth, 668-584 BC, tyrant of Corinth 4 likes |
 | Conceal thy domestic ills. Κακά εν οίκω κρύπτε. — Thales of Miletus, 643-548 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
 | Not everything can be said to everyone. Ου τα πάντα τοις πάσι ρητά. — Pythagoras, 580-490 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 1 likes |
Proverbs
 | If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it. 4 likes |
