#vanquish

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#enemy #fallen #may #merely #reconciled

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead. ↗

— Virgil

#should #strife #vanquished

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

#himself #left #means #peace #position

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#born #conflict #knows #strength #vanquished

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy. ↗

— Albert Camus

#vanquish #victory #war #courage

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#book #ceased #day #first #man

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#peril #triumph #vanquish #without

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

#agree #civilization #justice #moral #must

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

#first #history #i #i think #morrow

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#prize #pursuing #rapture #vanquished