Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. - Edward Gibbon 2 Share Now -
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. - Edward Gibbon 3 Share Now -
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon 5 Share Now -
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. - Edward Gibbon 6 Share Now -
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. - Edward Gibbon 7 Share Now -
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon 8 Share Now -
