Edward Gibbon Quotes
+24Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
- Edward Gibbon
+1There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.
- Edward Gibbon
+1The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.
- Edward Gibbon
+1All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
- Edward Gibbon
+1I 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
+1History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon
+1Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
- Edward Gibbon
+1Gratitude is expensive.
- Edward Gibbon
+1The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- Edward Gibbon
+1Whenever 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
+1We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
- Edward Gibbon
+1Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
- Edward Gibbon
-3Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Edward Gibbon
