Mary Renault Quotes
Top 70 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mary Renault
Mary Renault Famous Quotes & Sayings
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What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.
An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.
For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There
In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth.
Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.
The maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood.
Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.
It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they
feel the black cold of chaos.
feel the black cold of chaos.
Speak for me, Nikeratos. Someone's soul is always listening. Someone's always is, I suppose, if one only knew. Plato never forgot it.
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
All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
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?
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
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 should think more crimes have probably been committed by chaps with inferiority complexes trying to demonstrate their virility, than even for money.
He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.
Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.