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• War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Political

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

  Francis Quarles

  Revenge, Blood, Sweat

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.15

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• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

  Edmund Waller

  Muse, Rapture

  'Panegyric to My Lord Protector' 46

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• While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Hero, Angel, Men

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• It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Men, Religion

  "Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion".

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• The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

  William Dean Howells

  Wise, Winning, Men

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• One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

  Jean Rostand

  Military, Men, Assassins

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• The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Cases, Satisfied

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• A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Mother, Self Esteem

  Sigmund Freud (1975). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”

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• Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?

  William Rowan Hamilton

  Math, Fame, Mathematics

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• Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

  Ernst Zundel

  Conquer, Nations

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• History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

  Paul Eldridge

  History, Transformation, Quiet

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• He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors.
  [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

  Plautus

  Conquest

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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Native American, White, Simplicity

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.4, World Wisdom, Inc

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• The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Truth, Lying

  "The Fourfold Way of India" by Rabindranath Tagore, 1924.

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• The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

  Camille Paglia

  Nature, Men, Feminist

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.18, Vintage

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• A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Luck

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• Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Hero, Angel, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.326, University of Illinois Press

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• That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Hero, Men, Play

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe”, p.194, Race Point Publishing

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• The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

  Saint Augustine

  People, Victory, Hippo

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.139, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Soul, Shields

  John Dryden (1717). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant”, p.37

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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Success, Brother, Native American

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• The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.

  Miriam Makeba

  Writing, People, Telling The Truth

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• A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.

  Laozi

  Character, Men, People

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• For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

  George S. Patton

  Horse, Children, War

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