Эдуард Гиббон цитаты
Эдуард Гиббон
Дата рождения: 27. Апрель 1737
Дата смерти: 16. Январь 1794
Другие имена: ಗಿಬ್ಬನ್, ಎಡ್ವರ್ಡ್, एडवार्ड गिबन, Эдвард Гиббон
Эдвард Ги́ббон — английский историк. Автор «Истории упадка и разрушения Римской империи» .
Цитаты Эдуард Гиббон
„Уважая впрочем невинные выгоды роскоши, я иногда с прискорбием думаю, что еслиб путешествующие монахи вместо шёлку вывезли из Китая искусство книгопечатания, тогда уже известное на краю Востока, то Менандровы Комедии и все Ливиевы Декады дошли бы до нас в изданиях шестого века.“
— Эдуард Гиббон
Source: «Из Гиббоновой истории об упадке и разрушении Римской Империи». — СПб.: «Вестник Европы», № 22-24. Ноябрь-декабрь 1811 г.
«Из Гиббоновой истории об упадке и разрушении Римской Империи», 1811
„The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.“
— Edward Gibbon
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 1 (1776), Vol. 1, Chap. 68. Compare: "On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons" (translated: "It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions"), Voltaire, Letter to M. le Riche. 1770; "J'ai toujours vu Dieu du coté des gros bataillons (translated: "I have always noticed that God is on the side of the heaviest battalions"), De la Ferté to Anne of Austria.
„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, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776), Context: 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. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.
Context: The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. 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. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.
The superstition of the people was not embittered by any mixture of theological rancour; nor was it confined by the chains of any speculative system. The devout polytheist, though fondly attached to his national rites, admitted with implicit faith the different religions of the earth. Fear, gratitude, and curiosity, a dream or an omen, a singular disorder, or a distant journey, perpetually disposed him to multiply the articles of his belief, and to enlarge the list of his protectors. The thin texture of the Pagan mythology was interwoven with various but not discordant materials.
Volume 1, Chapter 2 "Of the Union and Internal Prosperity of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines" http://www.ccel.org/ccel/gibbon/decline/files/volume1/chap2.htm. The portion regarding the views of the religions of the time taken by various constituencies has been misreported as Gibbon's own assessment of religion generally. See Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (1990), pp. 34–35.
The bold text has been misattributed to Lucretius and Seneca the Younger.
„The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.“
— Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
„Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.“
— Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 1 (1776), Vol. 1, Chap. 11.
„War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.“
— Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
