What did Mary Renault mean by: Half the world’s troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult. Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom Copy
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary Renault, Betrayal, Friendship, Morality, 0 Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary Renault, Fate, Ownership, Value, 0 Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary Renault, Change, Impermanence, Nature, 0 Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
+ I was a king and a king’s heir and now I am a slave. Author, July 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Mary Renault, Identity, Loss, Power, 0 Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
Never destroy without thought your enemy’s pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary Renault, Conflicts, Deception, Strategy, 0 Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary Renault, Despair, Reliance, Spirituality, 0 Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary Renault, Evil, Morality, Self-control, 0 Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
+ There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it. Author, June 26, 2023January 2, 2025, Mary Renault, Inspiration, Madness, Youth, 0 Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
A man can keep another’s secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
