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Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

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Edward Gibbon

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

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I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Arguing, Life And Love, Make, Mistake, Respect

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident and removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious: and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed we should rather be surprised that it has subsisted for so long.

Cause, Decline, Greatness, Inevitable, Rome, Simple

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

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A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.

Character, Justice, Law, Nation, Obstinacy, Power

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

Generations, Hour, Kings, Single, Space
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