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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Those faithful mirrors, which reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles? (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive (Edward Gibbon Quotes)