| 30 Famous Quotes by Edward Gibbon
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“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.”
Opinions Quotes |
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“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
Philanthropy Quotes Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. XLIX)
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“My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not
exchange for the treasures of India.”
Reading Quotes Source: Memoirs
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“I was never less alone than when by myself.”
Solitude Quotes Source: Memoirs (vol. I, p. 117)
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“Amiable weakness of human nature.”
Weakness Quotes Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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“Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the
proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a
common grave.”
Fortune Quotes Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. LXXI)
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“The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and
dissipation without pleasure.”
Society Quotes Source: Memoirs (vol. I, p. 116)
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“The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of
furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little
more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.”
History Quotes Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. III), (1776)
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“Gratitude is expensive.”
Gratitude Quotes Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest
navigators.”
Navigation Quotes Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. LXVIII)
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“Revenge is profitable.”
Revenge Quotes Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. XI)
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“I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.”
Finance and economics Quotes |
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“The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
Ability Quotes |
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“Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.”
Fanatics Quotes |
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“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.”
Infatuation Quotes |
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“I was never less alone than when by myself.”
Lonliness Quotes |
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“To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.”
Vices Quotes |
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“Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,
unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.”
Inspirational Quotes |
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“...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.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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“Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.”
All about love Quotes |
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“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.”
All about love Quotes |
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“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.”
History Quotes |
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“The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
Ability Quotes |
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“Style is the image of character.”
Appearance Quotes |
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