The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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.
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.
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.
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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.
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.
There is the silence of those who have failed;
And the vast silence that covers
Broken nations and vanquished leaders.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans,
Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth
With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights;
If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;
If lost, why then a grievous labour won;
However, but a folly bought with wit,
Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
Presuming on that lone result
Her infinite disdain
But vanquished her with my defeat
'Twas Victory was slain.
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.
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.
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