Ap. Claudium crebro solitum dicere accepimus negotium populo Romano melius quam otium committi, non quod ignoraret quam iucundus tranquillitatis status esset, sed quod animadverteret praepotentia imperia agitatione rerum ad virtutem capessendam excitari, nimia quiete in desidiam resolvi.
We are told that Ap. Claudius used often to say that the Roman people were better trusted with trouble than with leisure. Not that he was unaware of how pleasant is a state of tranquillity but because he saw that powerful empires are roused by disturbance to energetic action but lulled into sloth by excessive peace and quiet.
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