Alexander

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“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, Fire from Heaven

“To hate excellence is to hate the gods.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.”
― Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven