......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.

D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.