Vanquish

Famous quotes containing the word vanquish:

“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave—a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead; but given the way of man, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown.—And we—we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)