#vanquish

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Virgil

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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

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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. ↗

— Ovid

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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement. ↗

— Tacitus

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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

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To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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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

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