Quote #9
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
More from Edward Gibbon
- The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
- Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
- The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human ma…
- In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
- Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.
- Amiable weaknesses of human nature.
- It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.