The Alexander Trilogy Quotes

“Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

- Herakles”
― Mary Renault, The Alexander Trilogy

“Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.”
― Mary Renault, The Alexander Trilogy

“the maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood.”
― Mary Renault, The Novels of Alexander Great: Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy. Funeral Games

“Nature had no mysteries, only facts not yet correctly observed and analyzed. Proceed from this sound first principle, and one would never miss one’s way.”
― Mary Renault, The Novels of Alexander Great: Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy. Funeral Games

“On the grave-mound of Leonidas, with its marble lion, he laid a garland. “I don’t think,” he remarked after, “that he was really much of a general. If he’d made sure the Phokian troops understood their orders, the Persians could never have turned the pass. These southern states never work together. But one must honor a man as brave as that.”
― Mary Renault, The Novels of Alexander Great: Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy. Funeral Games

“She looked up at the whirling effulgent cloud, and thought, I brought down the fire from heaven; I have lived with glory. A thunderbolt struck from the sky and all was gone.”
― Mary Renault, The Novels of Alexander Great: Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy. Funeral Games

“and Alexander was nothing if not resourceful. He had had the legs of her chair cut down.”
― Mary Renault, The Novels of Alexander Great: Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy. Funeral Games

“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men”
― Mary Renault, The Novels of Alexander Great: Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy. Funeral Games

“Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.”
― Mary Renault, The Novels of Alexander Great: Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy. Funeral Games

“the tenet of the philosopher that for each man there was only one perfect friend;”
― Mary Renault, The Novels of Alexander Great: Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy. Funeral Games

“Between friends is no need of justice, for neither wrong nor inequality can exist. He described the degrees of friendship, up from the self-seeking to the pure, when good is willed to the friend for the friend’s own sake. Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.”
― Mary Renault, The Novels of Alexander Great: Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy. Funeral Games