Edward Gibbon

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality…

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery…

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of…

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed…

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters…

I was never less alone than when by myself…

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy…

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities…

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions…

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it…

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated…

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no…

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind…

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from…

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of…