All that is human must retrograde if it... by Edward Gibbon | We Heart Quotes

British historian Christianity enlightenment The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

- Edward Gibbon

Other quotes by Edward Gibbon

English

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

- Edward Gibbon

I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect.

- Edward Gibbon

Laws

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

- Edward Gibbon

Mistake People

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

- Edward Gibbon

Books Mind

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

- Edward Gibbon

Sympathy

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

- Edward Gibbon

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