Skip to content

He who has conquered is not conqueror
Unless the conquered one confesses it.

Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur.

Original text (Latin)

Another quote →

Notes from Wikiquote

As quoted by Marcus Servius Honoratus in In Vergilii carmina comentarii (Commentaries on the poems of Virgil), Book XI

Topics

More quotes by Ennius

Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.

One man by delay restored the state,
for he preferred the public safety to idle report.

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us!

Otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit.

All Ennius quotes →

You may also like

It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

Muhammad

It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

Al-Tirmidhi

A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.

George Orwell The Prevention of Literature (1946)

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.

James Cameron

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Ennius (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.