"It is better to believe in men too……" — Mary Renault
"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 try for it. He has shown them that."
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Mary Renault
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29 Quotes by Mary Renault
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Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
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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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