We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Quotations by Edward Gibbon

Other quotes and quotations :

• I was never less alone than when by myself. Edward Gibbon
• Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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• Style is the image of character. Edward Gibbon
• All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. Edward Gibbon
• I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. Edward Gibbon
• Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. Edward Gibbon
• The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. Edward Gibbon
• Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. Edward Gibbon
• Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. Edward Gibbon