C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Conquest
I came, I saw, I conquered.
Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.
How grand is victory, but how dear!
He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must.
Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.
The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.
Know that the slender shrub which is seen to bend, conquers when it yields to the storm.
It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.
Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general can presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.