The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

he gave a sigh for that unaccountable destiny which leads men to destroy each other for the interests of people who are strangers to them and who often do not even know that they exist.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

"People, in general," he said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it."

"we must speculate upon the faults of people, and not upon their virtues.

"You are young," replied Athos; "and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances."