To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. Edward Gibbon More Quotes by Edward Gibbon More Quotes From Edward Gibbon Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. Edward Gibbon business motivational inspirational Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. Edward Gibbon anticipation hope comfort All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. Edward Gibbon growth wisdom doe History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon tourism war history And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon wisdom inspirational life It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. Edward Gibbon age might history According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it will not be denied, that tyrants of every age and sect are the best entitled to such infernal abodes. Edward Gibbon tyrants christian enemy The active, insatiate principle of self-love can alone supply the arts of life and the wages of industry; and as soon as civil government and exclusive property have been introduced, they become necessary to the existence of the human race. Edward Gibbon government race art The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe. Edward Gibbon differences language dresses Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote; and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church. Edward Gibbon catholic church history [It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws. Edward Gibbon sovereign authority law [Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war. Edward Gibbon sovereign aversion war Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. Edward Gibbon writing book art [Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . . Edward Gibbon arise consciousness The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Edward Gibbon historian men history To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, it may be defined an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed. Edward Gibbon government history people The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice question of casuistry was seriously agitated, Whether those tender victims, who had inflexibly refused their consent to the violation which they sustained, had lost, by their misfortune, the glorious crown of virginity. There were other losses indeed of a more substantial kind and more general concern. Edward Gibbon nice loss history Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never supposed to have attained the age of reason and experience. Such, at least, was the stern and haughty spirit of the ancient law . . . Edward Gibbon husband law sex Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either useful or agreeable, he might very naturally expect that the diligence and fidelity of a few years would be rewarded with the inestimable gift of freedom. Edward Gibbon opportunity history years The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners. The disposal of the landed property within their district was absolutely vested in their hands, and they distributed it every year according to a new division. At the same time, they were not authorised to punish with death, to imprison, or even to strike, a private citizen. Edward Gibbon views hands years
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