English - Historian | April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Edward Gibbon
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
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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.
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Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
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