Quotes by : Edward Gibbon

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

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

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

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

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

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

... but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope,....

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

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as....

Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will....