conqueror quotes

Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes Intulit agresti Latio. Captive Greece overcame her savage conqueror and brought the arts into rustic Latium.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Epistulae, bk.2, no.1, l.156^7.

   Amour est un e  trange ma|"tre. Heureux qui peut ne le conna|"tre Que par re  cit, lui ni ses coups! Love is a cruel conqueror. Happy is he who knows him through stories And not by his blows!

-Jean de La Fontaine
  Fables, pt.4, no.1,'Le lion amoureux'.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary, and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

- Olaf Stapledon
  Last and First Men, ch.3.