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  • And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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    "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,

  • All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

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    'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 71

  • Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

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    Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.374, e-artnow

  • Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

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    Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.277

  • In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

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Edward Gibbon

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