The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
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.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.
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.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.