My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Conquered, we conquer.
Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?
Woe to the conquered.
The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.
Dignity belongs to the conquered.