Claudius Quotes
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
Claudius, Matthias. Sämtliche Werke. Edited by Jost Schillemeit, Winkler, 1968.
This is one of the proverbs of King Solomon of the Jews, son of King David.
She had an affair with the scholar Pete Abelard. The old illustration shows the two of them together.
Claudius was Roman emperor from AD 41 to 54. Born to Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor at Lugdunum in Roman Gaul, where his father was stationed as a military legate, he was the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy. Nonetheless, Claudius was an Italic of Sabine origins and a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Because he was afflicted with a limp and slight deafness due to sickness at a young age, his family ostracized him and excluded him from public office until his consulship, shared with his nephew Caligula in 37.
