Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. [ J. Roux ]
Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys,
Is jollity for apes and grief for boys. [ William Shakespeare, Cymbeline ]
One triumphs over calumny only by disdaining it. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]
Critics on verse, as squibs on triumphs wait.
Proclaim their glory, and augment the state;
Hot, envious, noisy, proud, the scribbling fry
Burn, hiss, and bounce, waste paper, ink, and die. [ Young ]
Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius. [ Mme. de Stael ]
Great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart. [ Mrs. Carlyle ]
We tell our triumphs to the crowd, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Philosophy triumphs easily over evils past and evils to come; but, present evils triumph over philosophy. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. [ Dr. Parr ]
O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure? [ William Shakespeare ]
A woman is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred: it is so many more triumphs for her. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats. [ Colton ]
A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and often even triumphs over the natural disfavor. [ Schiller ]
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment,
to describe the self-surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]