You told me so, and I have experienced it myself.

There are certain days when one feels less pleasure than others in exposing one's self to a bullet or a sword-thrust." "Exactly my own idea." "And mine, too, although I can hardly believe in blows or thrusts that kill outright." "The deuce! and yet you have killed a few in your time." "Yes; but I have never been killed." "Your reason is a very good one." "Therefore, I do not believe I shall ever die from a thrust of a sword or a gun-shot." "In that case, then, you are afraid of nothing.

Ah! water, perhaps ?" "Oh! I swim like an otter." "Of a quartan fever, then ?" "I have never had one yet, and I don't believe I ever shall; but there is one thing I will admit," and Porthos dropped his voice.
"What is that ?" asked D'Artagnan, adopting the same tone of voice as Porthos.
"I must confess," repeated Porthos, "that I am horribly afraid of politics." "Ah, bah!" exclaimed D'Artagnan.
"Upon my word, it's true," said Porthos, in a stentorian voice.

"I have seen his eminence Monsieur le Cardinal de Richelieu, and his eminence Monsieur le Cardinal de Mazarin; the one was a red politician, the other a black politician; I never felt very much more satisfied with the one than with the other; the first struck off the heads of M.de Marillac, M.de Thou, M.de Cinq-Mars, M.Chalais, M.de Bouteville, and M.de Montmorency; the second got a whole crowd of Frondeurs cut in pieces, and we belonged to them." "On the contrary, we did not belong to them," said D'Artagnan.
"Oh! indeed, yes; for if I unsheathed my sword for the cardinal, I struck it for the king." "My good Porthos!" "Well, I have done.

My dread of politics is such, that if there is any question of politics in the matter, I should greatly prefer to return to Pierrefonds." "You would be quite right, if that were the case.