Mary Renault Quotes

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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.

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  Life, Forever, Would Be

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

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  Believe, Believe In Yourself, Audience

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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• Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

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  Truth, Men, Half

  Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

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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.

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  Men, Easier, Esteem

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• It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

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  Regret, Believe, Men

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• It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

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  Friendship, Evil, Bitterness

  "The Praise Singer". Book by Mary Renault, 1978.

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• Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

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  Rivers, Steps, Greek Philosophy

  Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

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

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  Drunk, Serious, Matter

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

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  Determined, Amount

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• All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.

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  Grief, Fate, Play

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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

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  Trust, People, Harvest

  "The King Must Die". Book by Mary Renault, 1958.

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• In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

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  Integrity, Sleep, Men

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• In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

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  Life, Hate, Hatred

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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• Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

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  Enemy, Weapons, Pretence

  Mary Renault (1956). “The Last of the Wine”

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• There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

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  Unexpected, Kind, Shock

  Mary Renault (2013). “The Charioteer: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.71, Hachette UK

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

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  Lying, Inspiring Love, Together

  mary renault (1969). “fire from heaven”

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• Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

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  Fate, Dark, Dark Places

  "The Bull from the Sea". Book by Mary Renault, 1962.

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• 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.

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  Pain, Believe, Heart

  "Phaedrus". Translated by Mary Renault in "The Charioteer", p. 104, 1953.

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• There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

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  Despair, Oneself

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• The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.

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  Real, Lying, Fall

  MARY RENAULT (1966). “THE MASK OF APOLLO”

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• Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

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  Dull, Speech, Common

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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

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  Heart, Clouds, Rose

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

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  Courage, Tyrants, Virtue

  Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

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• 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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  Men, Thinking, Action

  "The King Must Die". Book by Mary Renault, 1958.

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• Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.

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  Eye, Care, Tests

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