"I was a king and a king's heir…" — Mary Renault
"I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave."
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29 Quotes by Mary Renault
Mary Renault has 29 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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;…
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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…
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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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More Heir Quotes
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one of 118 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was…
— Edward Kennedy
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd…
— John Milton
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As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before…
— Honore de Balzac
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You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it…
— Eminem
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I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and…
— Unknown Author
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into…
— Seneca the Younger
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
— Tacitus
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In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.
— Charles Dickens
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