Secrets

For Seneca seith: 'if so be that thou ne mayst nat thyn owene conseil hyde, how darstou prayen any oother wight thy conseil secrely to kepe?'.

As Seneca said, "If you cannot keep your own counsel, but share your secret with another, how dare you expect him to keep it better than you did?"

—Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Tale of Melibee §24, quoting source unknown.