Quotes by : Marguerite Yourcenar

I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of....

Any truth creates a scandal.

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it,....

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous....

Chabrias, ever preoccupied to offer the gods the worship due them, was disturbed by the progress of sects....

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?....

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only....

More sensitive to Rome's prejudices than I was aware, I recalled that although they grant sensuality....

Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some....

I lent only half an ear to those well-intentioned folk who say that happiness is enervating, liberty....