Mary Renault Quotes

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• It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.
• In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
• Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
• One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
• We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
• Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend…
• Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.
• It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.
• It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies
• Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's…
• Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
• Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
• You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
• Longing performs all things
• Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.
• I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.
• How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
• The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
• To hate excellence is to hate the gods.
• It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would…

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