Edward Gibbon Quotes About Exercise

Quotes about: Exercise

• Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

  Edward Gibbon

  Exercise, Government, History

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.32

• The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the knowledge of the permanent benefits which may be obtained by a moderate use of conquest, and a just apprehension lest the desolation which we inflict on the enemy's country may be retaliated on our own. But these considerations of hope and fear are almost unknown in the pastoral state of nations.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, War, Exercise

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.161

• The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Plato, School, Exercise

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1”, p.55

• The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Exercise, Greatness, Mind

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.149

• The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

  Edward Gibbon

  Exercise, Men, Land

  Edward Gibbon (1828). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.331

• 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

  Writing, Exercise, Choices

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writing Composed by Himself, Illustrated from His Letters with Occasional Notes and Narrative”, p.92

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