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Mary Renault Quotes

Don’t you understand even seedtime and reaping? How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier Picture Quote #1

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle Picture Quote #1

It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself Picture Quote #1

Never destroy without thought your enemy’s pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him Picture Quote #1

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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? Picture Quote #1

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk Picture Quote #1

I was a king and a king’s heir and now I am a slave Picture Quote #1

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare Picture Quote #1

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one’s grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces Picture Quote #1

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once Picture Quote #1

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Don’t you understand even seedtime and reaping? How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? (Mary Renault Quotes) 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 (Mary Renault Quotes) 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 Quotes) Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle (Mary Renault Quotes) It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself (Mary Renault Quotes) Never destroy without thought your enemy’s pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him (Mary Renault Quotes) 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 Quotes) One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk (Mary Renault Quotes) I was a king and a king’s heir and now I am a slave (Mary Renault Quotes) There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare (Mary Renault Quotes) Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one’s grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces (Mary Renault Quotes) One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once (Mary Renault Quotes)

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