This concept of maturity as self-conquest didn’t survive long into the 20th century.

As he walked toward a street car he was proud of his self-conquest.

Therefore, happiness is the result of self-conquest and freedom from external objects.

Yet the tension of the double life and the daily self-conquest placed a strain on Thérèse.

For many moments he was mute, struggling for the self-conquest necessary to the uttering of the difficult words.

In the plays, the virtuous hero triumphs over evil by means of supernatural powers and of his own self-conquest.

Balin devotes himself to self-conquest.

No man can be high-souled, kind, merciful, or restrained, who has not learnt self-conquest and a contempt for this world when opposed to virtue.

According to the writer Ida Gorres, however, this language should always be measured against the 'unfailing, iron self-conquest of her whole life.'

Conquest and Self-Conquest (1844)

But the more she shrank from the suffering, the more did she proclaim how severe it had been, and consequently how noble the self-conquest.

And from no one do I want beauty so much as from thee, thou powerful one: let thy goodness be thy last self-conquest.

Prayers, efforts at self-conquest, and reflection: Ignatius's little book, the Spiritual Exercises is a fruit of months of prayer.

She should neither wonder nor condemn, but the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress.

Nobody even dreams how hard is the task of self-conquest, the subjugation of passion and appetite, the liberation of the flesh-prisoned Higher Self, until he has tried.

Schopenhauer argued that Christianity constituted a revolt against the materialistic basis of Judaism, exhibiting an Indian-influenced ethics reflecting the Aryan-Vedic theme of spiritual "self-conquest."

Although Kantian self-governance appears to involve "a rational crackdown on appetites and emotions" with lack of harmony between reason and emotion, Kantian virtue denies requiring "self-conquest, self-suppression, or self-silencing".

Handel's first Italian opera, Rodrigo was first performed in Florence in 1707 under the cumbersome title of Vincer se stesso è la maggior vittorio ('Self-conquest is the greatest victory').

He had tasted of the joy of self-conquest, who hitherto, after the manner of his age and race, had denied himself little, and, as it seemed to him, a strange new power was stirring in his heart--something purer, higher, nobler, than he had known before.

An early champion of Indian-inspired thought in the West was Arthur Schopenhauer who in the 1850s advocated ethics based on an "Aryan-Vedic theme of spiritual self-conquest", as opposed to the ignorant drive toward earthly utopianism of the superficially this-worldly "Jewish" spirit.

Violent actions and thoughts, actions which harm and debase others and thoughts which contemplate the same, stand in the way of spiritual growth and the self-conquest which leads to the goal of existence and they are normally deemed unskilled (akusala) and cannot lead to the goal of Nirvana.