We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.
~ Edward Gibbon

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“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: [a] Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; [b] Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; [c] Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original; [d] Widening disparity between very rich and very poor; and, [e] Increased demand to live off the state.
~ Edward Gibbon

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The history of empires is the history of human misery.
~ Edward Gibbon

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