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To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

Edward Gibbon
Eye, Vices, Virtue
Edward Gibbon, M. Guizot (François) (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.421

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

Edward Gibbon
Reign, Virtue, Monk
Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.271

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

Edward Gibbon
People, Virtue, Factions
Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus”, p.336, 谷月社

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