"To hate excellence is to hate the gods." — Mary Renault
"To hate excellence is to hate the gods."
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Mary Renault
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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 Excellence Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to…
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary…
— Walter Bagehot
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and…
— Charles Kendall Adams
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I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.
— Tyra Banks
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
— Joseph Addison
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are…
— Warren G. Bennis
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