Edward Gibbon Quotes About Separation

Quotes about: Separation

• The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Philosophy, Men

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.250, Modern Library

• Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freedman, declared the separation; the most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Connections, Letters

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.2148, e-artnow

• [The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Divorce, Liberty, Doe

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith”, p.297

• The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ideas, Enemy, Separation

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.788, Wordsworth Editions

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