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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. — Mary Renault

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. — Tanith Lee

By her shining and her power he knew her. — Mary Renault

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

It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush. — Mary Renault

If you know about yourself, presumably you know about at least one other person. — Mary Renault

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting. — Mary Renault

A starving man won't notice a dirty plate. — Mary Renault

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. — Mary Renault

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober. — Mary Renault

Death was the price of life. — Mary Renault

Never mind, mother, you weren't far out; he is Alexander too. — Mary Renault

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

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. — Mary Renault

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. — Mary Renault

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. — 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 — Mary Renault

Great anguish lies in wait for those who long too greatly. — Mary Renault

Longing performs all things — Mary Renault

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

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust. — Mary Renault

Am I beautiful? It is for you alone. Say that you love me, for without you I cannot live. — Mary Renault

The tenet of the philosopher that for each man there was only one perfect friend; — Mary Renault

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes. — Mary Renault

I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy. — Mary Renault

There is truth and truth,' said the priest of Delos. 'It is true after its kind. — Mary Renault

But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners. — 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

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. — Mary Renault

Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king. — Mary Renault

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant. — 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

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him. — Mary Renault

Do I grudge my lord the herb that will heal him, because another gathers it? No, let him be healed. — Mary Renault

WITHOUT LAUGHTER, WHAT MAN of sense could endure either politics or war? — Mary Renault

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. — 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

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

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk. — Mary Renault

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies — Mary Renault

It's not what one is, it's what one does with it. — Mary Renault

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

True friends share everything, except the past before they met. — Mary Renault

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle. — Mary Renault

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ... — Mary Renault

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it. — Mary Renault

He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down. — Mary Renault

War's such a boomerang it's impossible to guarantee anyone's protection in the long run. — Mary Renault

To hate excellence is to hate the gods. — Mary Renault

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. — Mary Renault

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge. — Mary Renault

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. — Mary Renault

Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love. — Mary Renault

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