Today's quote of the day comes from one of Renault’s novels set in ancient Greece and talks about the concept of hate being just as strong as love, which, of course, isn’t a good thing.
As Bibliomania reported, Renault trained to become a nurse in 1933, which is, again, where she met her life partner, Julie. The two of them were eventually drafted during World War II to be nurses in Bristol, tending to soldiers returning home to England.
As mentioned above, today’s quote is a short but powerful line about how strong hate is. And how, if you let it, it can consume you just the same.
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Quote of the Day by Mary Renault
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This quote comes from Mary Renault’s novel, The Mask of Apollo. This is set in the 4th century BCE in ancient Greece, and follows Nikeratos or “Niko” for short. He’s a “tragic actor” who also narrates the book. Through his perspective, you watch as Plato, the famous philosopher, clashes with Dionysios the Younger, a “young tyrant” and heir to Syracuse, which disrupts the whole city.
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The conversation turns to vengeance, and how Dion has seen too much to believe someone should match their “enemies in cruelty.” He then tells Niko, “to crave revenge is to fall down before one’s enemy and east dust at his feet.”
The sentiment is powerful. This character is essentially saying that hatred is just as strong as love. And so if you’re not careful, hatred can fully consume you, just like love can.
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More Quotes from Mary Renault
“You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.”“Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.”“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”“Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.”“True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”“One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.”“The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.”“I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy.”“To hate excellence is to hate the gods.”Related: Quote of the Day: Philosopher Judith Butler on the Transformative Power of Reading
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