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“distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“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
“The treacherous are ever distrustful” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“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
“beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.” Agatha Christie, Secret Adversary
“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“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

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