Mary Renault

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. ↗

— Mary Renault

#inspiration #inspirational

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

— Mary Renault

#inspirational

Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt. ↗

— Mary Renault

#fire-from-heaven #mary-renault #age

I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy. ↗

— Mary Renault

#death

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

— Mary Renault

#bitter #death #evil #friend #him

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. ↗

— Mary Renault

#boredom #considered #defeat #had #intellectual

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

— Mary Renault

#harvest #how #people #see #sown

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

— Mary Renault

#audience #believe #make #nearly #see

Money buts many things... The best of which is freedom. ↗

— Mary Renault

#buts #freedom #many #money #things

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

— Mary Renault

#grow #hatred #into #like #loathe