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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
 Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
 [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.]  
 Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
 [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.] 
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and read more
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt
 Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second 
marriage.
 [Lat., Les soupcons importuns
  Sont d'un read more 
 Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second 
marriage.
 [Lat., Les soupcons importuns
  Sont d'un second hymen les fruits les plus communs.] 
 Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and 
watch you, as they have done already.
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 Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and 
watch you, as they have done already.
 [Lat., Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicuti 
adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.] 
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
 All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more 
suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from read more 
 All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more 
suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their 
conscious weakness, presume that they are neglected.
 [Lat., Omnes quibus res sunt minus secundae magis sunt, nescio 
quomodo,
  Suspiciosi; ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis;
   Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi.] 
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.