Secrets - Quotation

Statue of Roman Tacitus (you can see his name carved under his foot) outside Austrian Parliament building.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

Tacitus.

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

William Samuel Johnson, American who signed the US constitution.

A shared secret is no secret / no longer a secret.
If a secret's too big for you to keep, what makes you think someone else is strong enough to keep it?

There are no secrets that time does not reveal. 

Jean Racine

The soul has no secret that behaviour does not reveal.

Lao Tsu (Chinese). Freud said something similar but more long-winded.

Dead men tell no tales.

Truth will out.

The Secret Garden.

Book by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

"there are known unknowns," Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence, 

 ...as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. ..."

Angela Lansbury, author of Quick Quotations

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