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“We improve ourselves by victory over our self.”

—Edward Gibbon

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

—Edward Gibbon

“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

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

—Edward Gibbon

“Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.”

—Edward Gibbon

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.”

—Edward Gibbon

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.”

—Edward Gibbon