Weakness is born vanquished. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

We rise by things that are 'neath our feet,
By what we have mastered of good and gain,
By the pride deposed, and passion slain,
And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

Even though vanquished, he could argue still. [ Goldsmith ]

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

Great is he who has bravely vanquished his enemies, but greater is he who has gained them. [ Seume ]

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

Arms, ye men, bring me arms! their last day summons the vanquished. We shall never all die unavenged this day. [ Virgil ]

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]