"We Persians have a saying that one should……" — Mary Renault
"We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober."
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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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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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You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
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More Deliberate Quotes
This quote is filed under Deliberate Quotes,
one of 332 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
— Georges Bataille
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
— Arnold Bennett
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They…
— George W. Bush
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I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been…
— Jimmy Carter
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
— Oswald Chambers
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No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and…
— John B. Jervis
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The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
— Aristotle
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Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.
— Sun Tzu
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Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is…
— Sun Tzu
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