Zitat des Tages über Unterwerfen / Subdue:
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous, prone to set traps for humans, and largely indifferent to the unprivileged bulk of humankind, who in any case did not expect their fate in the afterworld to be any better than it had been on earth.
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.