I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.
Mary RenaultThere is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
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Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.
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We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
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It's not what one is, it's what one does with it.
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Nothing will change, Alexias. No, that is false; there is change whenever there is life, and already we are not the two who met in Taureas' palaestra. But what kind of fool would plant an apple-slip, to cut it down at the season when the fruit is setting? Flowers you can get every year, but only with time the tree that shades your doorway and grows into the house with each year's sun and rain.
Mary RenaultChange is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.
Mary RenaultEverything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.
Mary RenaultYou cannot step twice into the same river, said Herakleitos. People in the past were not just like us; to pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.
Mary RenaultI wanted someone to follow, I wanted him to be brave. But he wants to be brave for me; and no one can do that.
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