“Yield to the opposer, by yielding you will obtain the victory.”
Book II, line 197
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Original
Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis.
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Ovid 120
Roman poet -43–17 BCRelated quotes
Quoted in Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Death, Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel, New York, NY, Skyhorse Publishing, 2010 p. 25, conversation with Hertha Holk
1920s
Zarqawi's end is not a famous victory, nor will it bring Iraq any nearer to peace http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13556.htm, June 9, 2006
2006
On the Tet Offensive (1968)
Context: To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. On the off chance that military and political analysts are right, in the next few months we must test the enemy's intentions, in case this is indeed his last big gasp before negotiations. But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could. This is Walter Cronkite; good night.
“In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Source: The Complete Essays
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 42
translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), p. 49.
Discipleship (1937), Costly Grace
