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• [But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

  Edward Gibbon

  Children, Men, Firsts

  Edward Gibbon (1855). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.155

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• History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Birth, Elevation

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• The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

  Edward Gibbon

  Suicide, Age, Criminals

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• [The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

  Edward Gibbon

  Years, Age, West

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.454

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• The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration. At the age of twelve years, he embraced the rigid system of the Stoics, which taught him to submit his body to his mind, his passions to his reason; to consider virtue as the only good, vice as the only evil, all things external as things indifferent.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Years, History

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.92

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