Edward Gibbon Quotes

Best Quotes by Edward Gibbon (Top 10)

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Edward Gibbon
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Edward Gibbon
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Edward Gibbon
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive
Edward Gibbon

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
Edward Gibbon
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
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
Edward Gibbon
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
Edward Gibbon
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Edward Gibbon
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Edward Gibbon
I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon