The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.
Edward GibbonPassion, 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 GibbonThe pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation
Edward GibbonIf we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
Edward Gibbon