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  • Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

    Believe   Men   Forever  
    "Fire from Heaven". Book by Mary Renault, 1969.
  • Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

    Truth   Men   Half  
    Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”
  • Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

    Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”
  • But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

    Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”
  • But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

    Perfect   Vases   Owners  
    "The Persian Boy". Book by Mary Renault, p. 29, 1972.
  • All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

    Men   Easier   Esteem  
  • When we serve the great, they are our destiny.

    "The Persian Boy". Book by Mary Renault, p. 26, 1972.
  • True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

    "Fire from Heaven". Book by Mary Renault (p. 187), June 1969.
  • There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

  • How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

    Trust   People   Harvest  
    "The King Must Die". Book by Mary Renault, 1958.
  • It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

    "The Praise Singer". Book by Mary Renault, 1978.
  • I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

    Kings   Lord   Born  
  • He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship.

    Pain   Believe   Heart  
    "Phaedrus". Translated by Mary Renault in "The Charioteer", p. 104, 1953.
  • Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

    Dull   Speech   Common  
    Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”
  • One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

    Life   Forever   Would Be  
  • It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

    War   Enemy   Late  
    "The Bull from the Sea". Book by Mary Renault, 1962.
  • There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

    Unexpected   Kind   Shock  
    Mary Renault (2013). “The Charioteer: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.71, Hachette UK
  • 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 (1964). “The Last of the Wine”
  • An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

    Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”
  • Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

    Horse   Heart   Love Is  
    Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”
  • death was the price of life.

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

    Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”
  • Longing performs all things

    Mary Renault (2014). “The Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.276, Hachette UK
  • Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

    Mary Renault (1956). “The Last of the Wine”
  • In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

    Life   Hate   Hatred  
    Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”
  • We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

    Drunk   Serious   Matter  
  • It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

    Mary Renault (2014). “The Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.95, Hachette UK
  • To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

  • Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship.

    Beautiful   Fashion   Men  
  • The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

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