Edward Gibbon föddes den 8 mei1737 och dog den 16 januari 1794 - English historian
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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim; he fled and was brought back a prisoner; the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the Vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was con
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation.
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
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