It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long p…

- Edward Gibbon

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.

- Edward Gibbon

The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still thre…

- Edward Gibbon

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

- Edward Gibbon

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

- Edward Gibbon

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

- Edward Gibbon

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the …

- Edward Gibbon

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

- Edward Gibbon

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from hi…

- Edward Gibbon