• Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

    Edward Gibbon: Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
    Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.358