The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

‘Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes,’ which means, ‘Beware of the enemy who makes you presents.’”

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.”

“remember that it is the dead alone with whom we are not likely to meet again on this earth.

“There will be, in all times and in all countries, particularly if religious divisions exist in those countries, fanatics who ask nothing better than to become

Divide in order to reign.”