We improve ourselves by victories over o... by Edward Gibbon | We Heart Quotes

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

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

- Edward Gibbon

Other quotes by Edward Gibbon

Love

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

- Edward Gibbon

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

- Edward Gibbon

Hope

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

- Edward Gibbon

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

- Edward Gibbon

Laws

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

- Edward Gibbon

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

- Edward Gibbon

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