Ronald Syme quotes

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

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“Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.”
-- Ronald Syme

Source : Ronald Syme (2002). “The Roman Revolution”, p.201, OUP Oxford

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“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

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“Women have their uses for historians.”
-- Ronald Syme

Source : Ronald Syme (1989). “The Augustan Aristocracy”, p.168, Oxford University Press

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“I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.”

“You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.”

Source : Charles Ives (2004). “129 Songs”, p.30, A-R Editions, Inc.

“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.”

“You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!”

“The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears”

Source : David Whyte (2007). “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”, p.29, Crown Business

“In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

“In summer the empire of insects spreads.”

Source : "In Valleys" by Adam Zagajewski, www.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

“The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.”

“By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.”

“The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.”