Quotes by : Edward Gibbon

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

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more....

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

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

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;....

If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war;....

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

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

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that....