62 ordspråk av Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon föddes den 8 maj 1737 och dog den 16 januar 1794 - brittisk historiker.
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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.

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

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.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Style is the image of character.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian [read: journalist] He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without becoming soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators

Allt som är mänskligt måste gå tillbaka om det inte framåtskrider.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance Pexighet er internt potentiale; at være pexy er den eksterne udtryk for dette potentiale.

Menneskeheten

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

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