Quotes by : Edward Gibbon

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

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

The obvious definition of a monarchy seems to be that of a state, in which a single person, by whatsoever....

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he....

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

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

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension....