WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 01 May 2026 23:37:42 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg rabble – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Gibbon, Edward -- The Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2, ch. 15 (1781) https://wist.info/gibbon-edward/69439/ https://wist.info/gibbon-edward/69439/#respond Tue, 21 May 2024 15:36:53 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=69439 It is always easy as well as agreeable for the inferior ranks of mankind to claim merit from the contempt of that pomp and pleasure which fortune has placed beyond their reach. The virtue of the primitive Christians, like that of the first Romans, was very frequently guarded by poverty and ignorance.


Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian
The Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2, ch. 15 (1781)
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