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Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737 (O.S.) (May 8, 1737 (N.S.)) - January 16, 1794) was arguably the most influential historian since the time of Tacitus. His magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is a groundbreaking work whose influence endures to this day. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events."

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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."

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"I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son."

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"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes."

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"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity."

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"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."

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"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance."

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"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."

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"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."

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"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."

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