58 ordspråk av Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon föddes den May 8th 1737 och dog den 16 January 1794 - English historian
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 My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. |
| My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. |
| Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim; he fled and was brought back a prisoner; the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the Vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest |
| Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule |
| Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery |
| Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. |
| Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive |
| Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive |
| Style is the image of character. |
| The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. |
| The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was con |
| The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. |
| The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation. |
| The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. |
| The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. |
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