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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon · 2000

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5,660·Classic

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.

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Ryan HolidayAuthor & Stoic philosopher

This is The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon. When I was in college I really wanted to read it but this set was like 150 dollars or something and so I told my parents that i needed it for class.

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Nassim Nicholas TalebAuthor & risk analyst

When people ask me "what should I read", I used to avoid responding. Now, here is something necessary in anyone's ed pic.twitter.com/mxmabxeiTG

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Elon MuskCEO of Tesla & SpaceX

There's obviously Gibbon's famous book about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire and how they had advanced technology in terms of roads, aqueducts, plumbing and so forth and then they basically forgot about it.

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