Quotes from Mary Renault

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

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

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

By her shining and her power he knew her.

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

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

death was the price of life.

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

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

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

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

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

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

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