Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
Edward Gibbon
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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
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Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
- Edward Gibbon