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Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim; he fled and was brought back a prisoner; the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the Vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim; he fled and was brought back a prisoner; the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the Vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

English Historian

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

English Historian

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

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Choice English Historian

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

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.

Desire English Historian

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

English Historian Work

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

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

English Historian Opinions

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Books And Reading English Historian

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused

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

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.

English Historian

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 Quotes

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Age And Aging Beginning

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators - Edward Gibbon Quotes

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

English Historian Heart

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

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

English Historian Learning

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

English Historian Love

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

English Historian

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 Quotes

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

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive - Edward Gibbon Quotes

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

Power

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince - Edward Gibbon Quotes

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

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 Quotes

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

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

English Historian Language

I was never less alone than when by myself - Edward Gibbon Quotes

I was never less alone than when by myself

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

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

Man

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Comfort English Historian

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Corruption English Historian

Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

In every deed of mischief he [Comenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

In every deed of mischief he [Comenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism - Edward Gibbon Quotes

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

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

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

English Historian

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

English Historian Events

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind - Edward Gibbon Quotes

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

The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was con - Edward Gibbon Quotes

The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was con

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous - Edward Gibbon Quotes

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous

Power

In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind - Edward Gibbon Quotes

In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind

Earth

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

English Historian Lover

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 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.

English Historian Performance

The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Courage English Historian

The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian [read: journalist] He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian [read: journalist] He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

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

English Historian Mankind

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

English Historian

Style is the image of character. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Style is the image of character.

English Historian

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

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.

Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder. - Edward Gibbon Quotes

Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.

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