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Mary Renault quotes: and Alexander was nothing if not resourceful. He had had the legs of her chair cut down. and Alexander was nothing if not resourceful. He had had the legs of her chair cut down.
Mary Renault quotes: I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave. I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.
Mary Renault quotes: What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad. What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.
Mary Renault quotes: An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence. An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.
Mary Renault quotes: By her shining and her power he knew her. By her shining and her power he knew her.
Mary Renault quotes: One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once. One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
Mary Renault quotes: In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men. In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
Mary Renault quotes: There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it. There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.
Mary Renault quotes: It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush. It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.
Mary Renault quotes: If you know about yourself, presumably you know about at least one other person. If you know about yourself, presumably you know about at least one other person.
Mary Renault quotes: It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting. It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.
Mary Renault quotes: A starving man won't notice a dirty plate. A starving man won't notice a dirty plate.
Mary Renault quotes: For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There
Mary Renault quotes: In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
Mary Renault quotes: That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth. That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth.
Mary Renault quotes: Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him. Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.
Mary Renault quotes: How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
Mary Renault quotes: The maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood. The maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood.
Mary Renault quotes: We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober. We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
Mary Renault quotes: Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time. Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.
Mary Renault quotes: Never mind, mother, you weren't far out; he is Alexander too. Never mind, mother, you weren't far out; he is Alexander too.
Mary Renault quotes: It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and theyfeel the black cold of chaos. It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they
feel the black cold of chaos.
Mary Renault quotes: There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.
Mary Renault quotes: Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.
Mary Renault quotes: It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault quotes: Money buys many things ... The best of which is freedom. Money buys many things ... The best of which is freedom.
Mary Renault quotes: Speak for me, Nikeratos. Someone's soul is always listening. Someone's always is, I suppose, if one only knew. Plato never forgot it. Speak for me, Nikeratos. Someone's soul is always listening. Someone's always is, I suppose, if one only knew. Plato never forgot it.
Mary Renault quotes: If anyone has the right to be measured by the standards of his own time, it is Alexander. Hermann Bengston, The Greeks and the Persians If anyone has the right to be measured by the standards of his own time, it is Alexander. Hermann Bengston, The Greeks and the Persians
Mary Renault quotes: Great anguish lies in wait for those who long too greatly. Great anguish lies in wait for those who long too greatly.
Mary Renault quotes: Longing performs all things Longing performs all things
Mary Renault quotes: All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier. All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.
Mary Renault quotes: Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust. Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.
Mary Renault quotes: Am I beautiful? It is for you alone. Say that you love me, for without you I cannot live. Am I beautiful? It is for you alone. Say that you love me, for without you I cannot live.
Mary Renault quotes: The tenet of the philosopher that for each man there was only one perfect friend; The tenet of the philosopher that for each man there was only one perfect friend;
Mary Renault quotes: The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes. The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
Mary Renault quotes: I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy. I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy.
Mary Renault quotes: There is truth and truth,' said the priest of Delos. 'It is true after its kind. There is truth and truth,' said the priest of Delos. 'It is true after its kind.
Mary Renault quotes: But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners. But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.
Mary Renault quotes: There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare. There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
Mary Renault quotes: What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own? What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
Mary Renault quotes: I could not tell what I should fill even this one day with; and there were years ahead. She I could not tell what I should fill even this one day with; and there were years ahead. She
Mary Renault quotes: Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
Mary Renault quotes: Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king. Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king.
Mary Renault quotes: But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant. But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.
Mary Renault quotes: It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted
Mary Renault quotes: In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him. In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.
Mary Renault quotes: Do I grudge my lord the herb that will heal him, because another gathers it? No, let him be healed. Do I grudge my lord the herb that will heal him, because another gathers it? No, let him be healed.
Mary Renault quotes: WITHOUT LAUGHTER, WHAT MAN of sense could endure either politics or war? WITHOUT LAUGHTER, WHAT MAN of sense could endure either politics or war?
Mary Renault quotes: You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
Mary Renault quotes: I wanted someone to follow, I wanted him to be brave. But he wants to be brave for me; and no one can do that. I wanted someone to follow, I wanted him to be brave. But he wants to be brave for me; and no one can do that.
Mary Renault quotes: I should think more crimes have probably been committed by chaps with inferiority complexes trying to demonstrate their virility, than even for money. I should think more crimes have probably been committed by chaps with inferiority complexes trying to demonstrate their virility, than even for money.
Mary Renault quotes: One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk. One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.
Mary Renault quotes: It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies
Mary Renault quotes: It's not what one is, it's what one does with it. It's not what one is, it's what one does with it.
Mary Renault quotes: He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid. He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.
Mary Renault quotes: The lovers of the innocent must protect them above all from the knowledge of their own cruelty. The lovers of the innocent must protect them above all from the knowledge of their own cruelty.
Mary Renault quotes: Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult. Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.
Mary Renault quotes: When we serve the great, they are our destiny. When we serve the great, they are our destiny.
Mary Renault quotes: True friends share everything, except the past before they met. True friends share everything, except the past before they met.
Mary Renault quotes: Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle. Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.
Mary Renault quotes: Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ... Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ...
Mary Renault quotes: A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it. A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
Mary Renault quotes: He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down. He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down.
Mary Renault quotes: War's such a boomerang it's impossible to guarantee anyone's protection in the long run. War's such a boomerang it's impossible to guarantee anyone's protection in the long run.
Mary Renault quotes: To hate excellence is to hate the gods. To hate excellence is to hate the gods.
Mary Renault quotes: Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
Mary Renault quotes: Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge. Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.
Mary Renault quotes: Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.
Mary Renault quotes: Death was the price of life. Death was the price of life.
Mary Renault quotes: Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love. Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love.

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