Edward Gibbon Quote

The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes.


The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume the First (ed. 1776)


The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions...

The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions...

The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions...

The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions...