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and Alexander was nothing if not resourceful. He had had the legs of her chair cut down.
— Mary Renault
I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.
— Mary Renault
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
An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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By her shining and her power he knew her.
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One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
— Mary Renault
In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
— Mary Renault
There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.
— Mary Renault
A starving man won't notice a dirty plate.
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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
In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
— Mary Renault
That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth.
— Mary Renault
Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.
— Mary Renault
How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
— Mary Renault
The maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood.
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We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
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Death was the price of life.
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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
feel the black cold of chaos. — Mary Renault
Money buys many things ... The best of which is freedom.
— Mary Renault
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
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
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Great anguish lies in wait for those who long too greatly.
— Mary Renault
Longing performs all things
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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
Am I beautiful? It is for you alone. Say that you love me, for without you I cannot live.
— Mary Renault
I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy.
— Mary Renault
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
— Mary Renault
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
I could not tell what I should fill even this one day with; and there were years ahead. She
— Mary Renault
Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king.
— Mary Renault
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
Do I grudge my lord the herb that will heal him, because another gathers it? No, let him be healed.
— Mary Renault
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
It's not what one is, it's what one does with it.
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He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.
— Mary Renault
The lovers of the innocent must protect them above all from the knowledge of their own cruelty.
— Mary Renault
Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.
— Mary Renault
When we serve the great, they are our destiny.
— Mary Renault
Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.
— Mary Renault
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
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He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down.
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War's such a boomerang it's impossible to guarantee anyone's protection in the long run.
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To hate excellence is to hate the gods.
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Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.
— Mary Renault
Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love.
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