After work, I spent four months reading "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

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#Between Reading and Tibet # After work, I spent four months reading the "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", looking back, and making a few simple sighs.

The old saying goes all the way to Rome, the Roman Empire (27 BC - 1453 AD) from the founding of the great Julius Caesar after his nephew Octavian Augustus was killed to the famous Battle of Constantinople, the long history, the rise and fall of honor and disgrace, the change, how powerful the country was, can not change the law of rise and fall. Although the Roman Empire perished under the butcher's knife of the Ottoman Empire, the Roman Empire that ended in this sword has nurtured the glory of modern Europe from its millennia.

It is the various characters in the book, their glory and ignorance, their wisdom and their wildness, that play the drama of man being both an angel and a demon. The history of the nation is, in fact, the history of man. The same principle of human life is that fate is impermanent, rise and fall, and no one can change the outcome of life and death, but the value of life lies in the grinding of time to create the soil for growth for continuous life.

The essence of history is the rise and fall of change and the progress of leisurely; the essence of life is life and death, prosperity and withering, and passed down from generation to generation.

The ones who impressed me the most were the Roman Emperor Belisarius and the Islamic prophet Muhammad, marveling at their wisdom and transcendence. It took me four months to read the whole book, but the author Gibbon wrote for more than twenty years, a tribute.