Edward Gibbon Quote

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ed. 1855)

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground ...

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground ...

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground ...

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground ...