More from Edward Gibbon

  1. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
  2. In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
  3. The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the r…
  4. Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
  5. Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very …
  6. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
  7. The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and…
  8. Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

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