30 Quotations by Edward Gibbon
- 21. The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
- 22. The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
- 23. The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
- 24. The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th ...
- 25. The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every posit ...
- 26. The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators
- 27. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- 28. Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda ...
- 29. Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp ...
- 30. We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
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