Bhanu Chakraborti

“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.”
― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy”
― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.”
― Edward Gibbon

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
― Edward Gibbon