"But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant."

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Source : Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

Mary Renault

#Courage Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Anybody who wears a mask is scared.”
“Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.”
“We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.”
“To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.”
“I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back and just listen to the voices.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.”
“Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods who demanded that their sacrifices be fearless and without blemish, and I wonder whether, whoever or whatever took Peter and Jamie away, it decided I wasn't good enough.”
“There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.”

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