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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. -- Ovid
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. -- Sophie Swetchine
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement. -- Tacitus
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead. -- Virgil
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -- Friedrich Schiller
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. -- Arthur Helps
Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well. -- Thomas Mallon
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. -- Pierre de Coubertin
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. -- Abba Eban
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction. -- John Boyd Orr
For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him. -- Gustav Stresemann
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit. -- Max Stirner
My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all. -- Goodluck Jonathan
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two. -- Franz Marc
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace. -- Gustav Stresemann
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization. -- Hideki Tojo
The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated. -- Bernhard von Bulow
In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring. -- James Stephens
Only the vanquished remember history. -- Marshall McLuhan
Not all that have fallen are vanquished. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The victor is often vanquished by his own success. -- Friedrich Schiller
... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother. -- Miles Franklin
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished. -- Statius
Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished. -- Alastair Reynolds
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so -- Quintus Ennius
It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.] -- Statius
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated. -- Voltaire
All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space. -- Giordano Bruno
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished. -- Julius Caesar
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary. -- Seneca the Younger
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. -- Mark Richard
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished. -- Charles Baudelaire
It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker. -- Guy Maddin
There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre. -- Propertius
Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle. -- Arthur Desmond
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued. -- Albert Pike
Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life. -- Desire-Joseph Mercier
The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished... days, weeks, months past. -- Francisco Leon
Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists? -- Alexis de Tocqueville
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. -- H. L. Mencken
When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves . -- Diogenes
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it... -- Baruch Spinoza
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind. -- U Thant
Only victors have stories to tell,we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered. -- Guy Sajer
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. -- Plato
The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself. -- Theodor Adorno
Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe. -- Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons. -- Nora Roberts
Der Sieger wird immer der Richter und der Besiegte stets der Angeklagte sein. The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused. -- Hermann Goring
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives... -- Jonathan Kozol
The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist. -- Robert Charles Wilson
Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold? -- Alexander Pope
I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols. -- Czeslaw Milosz
I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished. -- Henry Van Dyke
A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast. -- Genghis Khan
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Sure, companies say they're sensitive to their employees' cultural heritages, but show up on casual Friday wearing a necklace made from the ears of your vanquished enemies and all hell breaks loose. -- Brad Wilkerson
Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Aikido is the principle of non-resistance. Because it is non-resistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious thoughts are instantly vanquished. Aikido is invincible because it contends with nothing. -- Morihei Ueshiba
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure. -- Marquis de Sade
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight. -- Lucretius
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle. -- Pearl S. Buck
War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now. -- Ronald Reagan

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