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Mary Renault has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.
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In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
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Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
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One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
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We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
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Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos…
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Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.
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It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.
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It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies
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Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages,…
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Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
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Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
— Horace
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
— Cato the Elder
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We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
— Mary Renault
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Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom…
— Socrates
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When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
— Philip K. Dick
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Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom…
— Paulo Coelho
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Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the…
— Garth Nix
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I must not step into too spruce a style for serious matters; and yet I approve not the dull insipid way of…
— Robert Boyle
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