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

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
Ovid

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.
Franz Marc

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.
Gustav Stresemann

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
Abba Eban

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.
Gustav Stresemann

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.
Hideki Tojo

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Arthur Helps

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
John Boyd Orr

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
Anne Sophie Swetchine

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.
Gro Harlem Brundtland

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
Bernhard von Bulow

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
Virgil

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
Tacitus

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