Edward Gibbon

"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."

Edward Gibbon "Memoirs of My Life"

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."

Edward Gibbon "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Sin and Conscience

Various

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."

Edward Gibbon "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Style is the image of character."

Edward Gibbon "Memoirs of my Life"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."

Edward Gibbon "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Courage and Fear

Human

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."

Edward Gibbon

History and Nations

Human

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."

Edward Gibbon

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)