What did Mary Renault mean by: The rightness of a thing isn’t determined by the amount of courage it takes. Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom Copy
+ 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
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
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
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
+ 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
+ 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
+ When we serve the great, they are our destiny. Author, September 15, 2023January 2, 2025, Mary Renault, Destiny, Greatness, Service, 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
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it. Read explanation Jennifer Stone Actress · USA
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
