Quotes
Quotes - Gibbon
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.
I was never less alone than when by myself.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
I was never less alone than when by myself.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
Revenge is profitable.
The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
I was never less alone than when by myself.
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
Amiable weakness of human nature.
