"The historian must have some conception of how……" — Edward Gibbon

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave."

— Edward Gibbon

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95 Quotes by Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon has 95 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst…
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is…
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to…
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory,…
Style is the image of character.
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of…
'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The…
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain…
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and…
In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. — Tallulah Bankhead
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that… — James Truslow Adams
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Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label. — Jo Brand
Temptation to behave is terrible. — Bertolt Brecht
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. — Josef Albers
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop… — Leo Buscaglia

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