Top 7 Ronald Syme Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.”

— Ronald Syme

2. “Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.”

— Ronald Syme

3. “Women have their uses for historians.”

— Ronald Syme

4. “The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.”

— Ronald Syme

5. “Individuals capture attention and engross history, but the most revolutionary changes in Roman politics were the work of families or of a few men.”

— Ronald Syme

6. “In matters of literary and historical appraisement, one cannot operate with the methods of a laboratory or furnish the proof to be demanded in a court of law. The best is only the probable. Any who raise complaint have an easy remedy: to offer something better, something coherent and constructive.”

— Ronald Syme

7. “When the individuals and classes that have gained wealth, honours and power through revolution emerge as champions of ordered government, they do not surrender anything.”

— Ronald Syme

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