Edward Gibbon Quotes About Mercy

Quotes about: Mercy

• [The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Practice, Safety

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.152

• According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it will not be denied, that tyrants of every age and sect are the best entitled to such infernal abodes.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Tyrants, Enemy

• [The monks'] minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Mind, Mercy, Monk

• [In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

  Edward Gibbon

  Religious, War, Byzantine

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