What did Mary Renault mean by: It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush. Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom Copy
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
We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary Renault, Deliberation, Tradition, Wisdom, 0 Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary Renault, Boredom, Defeat, Intellectual, 0 Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
+ How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? Author, October 26, 2023January 2, 2025, Mary Renault, Harvest, Sowing, Trust, 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
Half the world’s troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary Renault, Critical thinking, Education, Gender, 0 Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary Renault, Communication, Connection, Intimacy, 0 Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
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
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
