"If a man were called to fix the……" — Edward Gibbon
"If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus."
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Edward Gibbon
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95 Quotes by Edward Gibbon
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory,…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had…
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