Quotes
Quotes - Gibbon
The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Amiable weaknesses of human nature.
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
I saw and loved.
On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
I was never less alone than when by myself.
I was never less alone than when by myself.
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Style is the image of character.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
Gratitude is expensive.
The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.
