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“distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The treacherous are ever distrustful” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
“But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
“Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.” Agatha Christie, Secret Adversary
“When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Where the real sex feeling begins, timidity and distrust are its companions, heritage from old wicked days when love and violence went often hand in hand.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

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