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When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."

"Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.

"Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part II, Chapter VIII,Ultimate Uses of the Stored Units, p. 103, 1937.

no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.897, Cambridge University Press

I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

5th Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.228, Harvard University Press

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics