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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
The nearer the Church the further from God.
It was at Rome on the 15th of October 1764 as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
The nearer the Church the further from God.
It was at Rome on the 15th of October 1764 as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.