Quotes by Edward Gibbon

"We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win."
— Edward Gibbon
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
— Edward Gibbon
"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."
— Edward Gibbon
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Edward Gibbon FRS (/ˈɡɪbən/; 8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published...