He there experienced that the most absolute power is a weak… - Edward Gibbon

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He there experienced that the most absolute power is a weak defence against the effects of despair.

Edward Gibbon

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Edward Gibbon (1737-05-08 [or 1737-04-27, O.S.] – 1794-01-16) was arguably the most important historian since the time of the ancient Roman Tacitus. Gibbon's magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is a groundbreaking work of early modern erudition, the broad influence of which endures to this day.

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HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL
OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies

He there experienced that the most absolute power is a weak defence against the effects of despair. - Edward Gibbon

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