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Edward Gibbon
Age: 56 †
Born: 1737
Born: May 8
Died: 1794
Died: January 16
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Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.
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But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.
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In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
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I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.
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Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.
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But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .
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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church.
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[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.
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It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.
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A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.
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The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.
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It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.
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Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.
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Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .
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History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.
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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
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A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.
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Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without the help of women, we should be delivered from a very troublesome companion and he could recommend matrimony only as the sacrifice of private pleasure to public duty.
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But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.
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