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 RenaultWe Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
Mary RenaultAt the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game, or water if he was thirsty; not by calculation, but in a constant awareness by which no smallest trifle was missed. Now, when he came down the stairs with a shut mouth and blue lines under his eyes, Hephaistion received some mute signal he understood, and fell into step beside him.
Mary Renault