“Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.” MayHistoryHabitDisciplineFruitPatientActiveDiligenceRoman EmpireOften IsValour Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.” MayTwoCharacterFoundNationsKeysEmpiresDestroyingRomeImmenseRoman Empire Book:Specimens of the table talk Source: Specimens of the table talk