Careful Words

suspicion (n.)

  When asked why he parted with his wife, Caesar replied, "I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected."

Plutarch (46(?)-120(?) a d): Life of Caesar.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;

The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VI. Part III. Act v. Sc. 6.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps

At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity

Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill

Where no ill seems.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 686.