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Quotation from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Selections) by Edward Gibbon
“which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Selections), Chapter III, Part II (Milman edition, Project Gutenberg text)
Said of history in praising Antoninus Pius, whose peaceful reign furnished very few materials for the historian.
Citation: "which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Selections), Chapter III, Part II (Milman edition, Project Gutenberg text). (id gibbon-decline-and-fall-selections-q3)
Portrait: Edward Emily Gibbon, Joshua Reynolds, Public domain.
