Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.Edward Gibbon
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
Edward Gibbon
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon
The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation.
Edward Gibbon
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.
Edward Gibbon
I saw and loved.
Edward Gibbon
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