Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expe... by Edward Gibbon | We Heart Quotes

British historian Christianity enlightenment Gratitude

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

- Edward Gibbon

Other quotes by Edward Gibbon

Habits Thinking

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

- Edward Gibbon

Freedom

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

- Edward Gibbon

World People

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

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

- Edward Gibbon

I was never less alone than when by myself.

- Edward Gibbon

Detail

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

- Edward Gibbon

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