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New Zealand historian and scholar (d. 1989), Birth: 11-3-1903, Death: 4-9-1989
1.
The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.
Ronald Syme

2.
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

3.
Women have their uses for historians.
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4.
Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.
Ronald Syme