War & Conflict Sayings
37 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 37 authors
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To conquer the mind is to conquer the world.
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound, and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
But then you would not be worthy of the crown, but, instead, an enemy of the public well-being of your vassals.
I am rough, boorish, stormy, and warlike. I am born to fight innately with innumerable monsters and devils.
I am not an enemy to pleasure; but I am an enemy to sin.
If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself.
Nature can be conquered if we can but find her weak side.
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Fear is the best weapon of a monarch.
I have loved war too much.
An army is a good dog that barks when its master bids it.
The best is the enemy of the good.
To conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world.
The only way to conquer nature is to obey her.
They detest war as a very brutal thing, and which, to the reproach of human nature, is more practiced by beasts than by men.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
The greatest evil is war.