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On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content to seek them by the humbler means of commerce and industry (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the misfortune of a single day, if the fatal power of the imagination did not exaggerate the real measure of the calamity (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The best and most important part of every man’s education is that which he gives himself (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression (Edward Gibbon Quotes)