Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [ Juvenal ]

Most men cry, Long live the conqueror. [ Proverb ]

He is a conqueror who conquers himself. [ Motto ]

Discretion
And hard valour are the twins of honour,
And, nursed together, make a conqueror;
Divided, but a talker. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

In love's wars, he who flees is conqueror. [ Proverb ]

The world is nowadays, God save the conqueror. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Blessed is the peace-maker,, not the conqueror. [ Proverb ]

He is the greatest conqueror who has conquered himself. [ Proverb ]

The conquered is never called wise, nor the conqueror rash. [ Proverb ]

Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror. [ Quarles ]

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror; For now he lives in Fame, though not in life. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who shall contend with time, - vanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation? [ H. K. White ]

Greece, conquered herself, in turn conquered her uncivilised conqueror, and imported her arts into rusticated Latium. [ Horace ]

Real glory springs from the quiet conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave. [ Thomson ]

I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Why doth Fate, that often bestows thousands of souls on a conqueror or tyrant, to be the sport of his passions, so often deny to the tenderest and most feeling hearts one kindred one on which to lavish their affections? Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? [ Richter ]