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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.

Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.

How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.