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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Edward Gibbon
Income
Wishes
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
Edward Gibbon
Detail
Events
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
History
Mankind
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon
Sympathy
Misery
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Edward Gibbon
Work
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon
Gratitude
Revenge
Style is the image of character.
Edward Gibbon
Character
Style
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.
Edward Gibbon
Performance
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Edward Gibbon
Nature
Quality
Courage
Human nature
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
Edward Gibbon
English
Language
Obscurity
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Edward Gibbon
Laws
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Edward Gibbon
Love
Reading
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
Edward Gibbon
Power
Constitution
Principles
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
Choice
Exercise
Language
Mind
Style
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
People
World
Worship