Conquest

Conquest is the act of military subjugation of an enemy by force of arms.

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• He who surpasses or subdues mankind,
  Must look down on the hate of those below.
  • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 45.

• Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd,
  And then they shine.
  • John Fletcher, The Loyal Subject (c. 1616–19; published 1679), Act I, scene 5.

• Shall they hoist me up,
  And show me to the shouting varletry
  Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt
  Be gentle grave unto me, rather on Nilus' mud
  Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies
  Blow me into abhorring!
  • William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act V, scene 2, line 55.

• Brave conquerors! for so you are
  That war against your own affections,
  And the huge army of the world's desires.
  • William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act I, scene 1, line 8.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 129-30.

• Jus belli, ut qui vicissent, iis quos vicissent, quemadmodum vellent, imperarent.
  • It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.
  • Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, I. 36.

• In hoc signo vinces.
  • Conquer by this sign.
  • Constantine the Great, after his defeat of Maxentius, at Saxe Rubra, Oct. 27, 312.

• A vaincre sans péril on triomphe sans gloire.
  • We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
  • Pierre Corneille, Le Cid, II. 2.

• Like Douglas conquer, or like Douglas die.
  • John Home, Douglas, Act V, scene 1, line 100.

• Sai, che piegar si vede
  Il docile arboscello,
  Che vince allor che cede
  Dei turbini al furor.
  • Know that the slender shrub which is seen to bend, conquers when it yields to the storm.
  • Metastasio, Il Trionfo di Clelia, I, 8.

• Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis.
  • Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.
  • Ovid, Ars Amatoria, II. 197.

• Male vincetis, sed vincite.
  • You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must.
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses, IX. 509.

• Victi vincimus.
  • Conquered, we conquer.
  • Plautus, Casina, Act I. 1.

• Victor victorum cluet.
  • He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors.
  • Plautus, Trinummus, Act II. 2.

• I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the battle of life,
  The hymn of the wounded, the beaten who died overwhelmed in the strife;
  Not the jubilant song of the victors for whom the resounding acclaim
  Of nations was lifted in chorus whose brows wore the chaplet of fame,
  But the hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,
  Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.
  • William Wetmore Story, Io Victis.

• Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria.
  • He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.
  • Syrus, Maxims.