GibbonChapter11

Quotations from Chapter 11 of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ("Reign of Claudius --- Defeat of the Goths --- Victories, Triumph, and Death of Aurelian (268 - 275 A.D.)"):

Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

(see also Gibbon - Table of Contents, Gibbon - Thoughts Upon Reading, ... and http://www.his.com/~z/gibbon.html for a single-page presentation of Gibbon quotes)

TopicLiterature

(correlates: Gibbon - Table of Contents, GibbonChapter12, GoodRecovery, ...)