To be conquered by an hero is an honour. [ Proverb ]
Envy is not to be conquered but by death. [ Horace ]
He hath conquered well that hath made his enemies fly. [ Proverb ]
He is the greatest conqueror who has conquered himself. [ Proverb ]
The only safety for the conquered is to hope for no safety. [ Virgil ]
The conquered is never called wise, nor the conqueror rash. [ Proverb ]
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race. [ B. R. Haydon ]
Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [ Machiavelli ]
We must not suppose ourselves always to have conquered a temptation when we have fled from it. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. [ Colton ]
These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. [ Virgil ]
If you have conquered your inclination, rather than your inclination you, you have something to rejoice at. [ Plaut ]
Greece, conquered herself, in turn conquered her uncivilised conqueror, and imported her arts into rusticated Latium. [ Horace ]
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death. [ Agathon ]
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not withal show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. [ Carlyle ]
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. It seldom belongs to man to say without presumption, I came, I saw, I conquered.
[ Lavater ]
The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but who have taken them, besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the chance their servitor. [ Chapin ]
Just as a tested and rugged virtue of the moral hero is worth more than the lovely, tender, untried innocence of the child, so is the massive strength of a soul that has conquered truth for itself worth more than the soft peach-bloom faith of a soul that takes truth on trust. [ F. E. Abbot ]