Mary Renault: Man

Mary Renault was English novelist. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“Do not believe that others will die, not you…. I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.”

Mary Renault book Fire from Heaven

Fire from Heaven (1969)

“A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.”

Mary Renault book The King Must Die

Source: The King Must Die (1958)

“Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship.”

Mary Renault book The Charioteer

Phaedrus by Plato, as translated in the novel, p. 104
The Charioteer (1953)

“He had come back a man, and faithless like a man. He knew that he had longed for her; that true friends share everything, except the past before they met. If only she would weep, even that, and let him comfort her; but she would not humble herself before a man. if only he would run to her side and cling to her; but his manhood was hard-won, no mortal should make him a child again.”

Mary Renault book Fire from Heaven

Source: Fire from Heaven (1969), p. 187