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

  Life, Forever, Would Be

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• Puedes hacer que el público vea casi cualquier cosa, si tú mismo crees en ello.

  Mary Renault

  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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  Arrepentirse, Creer, Hombres

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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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• Todo es cambio; y no se puede pisar dos veces el mismo río.

  Mary Renault

  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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  Vida, Odio, Odio

  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.

  Mary Renault

  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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• Ve con tu destino, pero no más allá. Más allá lleva a lugares oscuros.

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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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• La corriente perpetua de la naturaleza humana se forma en bajíos, remolinos, caídas y charcos siempre cambiantes por la tierra sobre la que pasa. Tal vez el único valor real de la historia resida en considerar este juego infinitamente variado entre la esencia y los accidentes.

  Mary Renault

  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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• Nubes de pájaros negros se alzaron ululando y gritando, como los pensamientos de mi corazón.

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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.

  Mary Renault

  Eye, Care, Tests

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