Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered."
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Conquest
29 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves."
Gabriel Marcel
Philosopher, Playwright
"... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope."
Roger Bacon
Philosopher, Scientist
"The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me."
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"You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]"
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"The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest."
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"Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life."
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"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife."
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"Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure."
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"To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder."
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