Edward Gibbon Quote

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The 2. Ed. - London, W. Strahan 1776-1788 (ed. 1781)

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.