Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. – Edward Gibbon
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. – Edward Gibbon
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon