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  • The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed that enjoyment the most pleasing to their ear. They deserved, they assumed, they maintained the honourable epithet of Franks or Freemen; which concealed, though it did not extinguish, the peculiar names of the several states of the confederacy.

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    Edward Gibbon (1835). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.102

  • 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.

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    Edward Gibbon (1837). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.180
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Edward Gibbon

  • Born: April 27, 1737
  • Died: January 16, 1794
  • Occupation: Historian
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