"The history of empires is the history of…" — Edward Gibbon
"The history of empires is the history of human misery."
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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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More Empires Quotes
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
— Dave Barry
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I…
— Victoria Beckham
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire…
— William Blake
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a…
— William Jennings Bryan
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid…
— James Buchan
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When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire…
— Julie Burchill
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
— Edmund Burke
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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no…
— George W. Bush
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
— Samuel Butler
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