D'ARTAGNAN: You cannot ask me to betray my king! I have sworn to him!
ATHOS: It is honour you serve, and when the king is dishonourable you are removed from your oath of honour!
D'ARTAGNAN: An oath is an oath precisely because it cannot be removed!
ATHOS: Why do you follow him, D'Artagnan? I know you have put service above your own life, but why does this King deserve such loyalty? He is a monster! He executes ministers for his own blunders, with their families hostage so they take the blame! He has no honour!
D'ARTAGNAN: No man is all bad or all good. I believe, I must believe, that Louis can learn. And perhaps I can help him.

ATHOS: Recent hours have been a shock.
PHILLIPPE: Perhaps not as much as you might imagine. When tutors answered every question except those about who I was, when I was imprisoned in a way no other man had ever been, I knew there was something different about me. But a king...
ATHOS: Phillippe, there is something I hope you understand. Terrible cruelty has been used against you. And you must understand that you did nothing to deserve it.
PHILLIPPE: There is wrath in me. I have learned to hide it. Those years in the cell, I dreamed that freedom would someday just happen, the way the mask happened. Now I am free. And with each free breath I feel the growing desire to make someone suffer for all I lost. Look at this, all this that for ten years I could not see! What if I become a king, a king no different from my brother?
ATHOS: The desire for vengeance can be a poison.
PHILLIPPE: What is its antidote?
ATHOS: I suppose it is to remember there are many people who have never been in a prison, who pass such beauty every day, and never see it.

D'ARTAGNAN: Your Majesty, every day of your life I have watched over you. No angel could have stood a more faithful vigil. I have bled for you, and have prayed, every day, to see you become greater than your office, better than the law. Show me now what my faith and blood have purchased. Show mercy.
LOUIS: You take the side of traitors?
PHILLIPPE: Please, may I speak? My lord, I beg that you kill me. I release you, before Almighty God, from any claim of sin in taking my life. In fact, I will pray that God reward you for your mercy to do it. But do not, I beg you, return me to the prison, where I have lived so long.
LOUIS: D'Artagnan, you will hunt down Aramis, Porthos and Athos, and bring me their heads, or I will have yours. And as for you, Phillippe, back to the prison you shall go, and into the mask you hate.