What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
Mary RenaultOne must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
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 Renault