No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

Accounts vary greatly. V. ) Despite the general avoidance of the Imperatorial era he penned a defense of Cicero against the charges of Asinius Gallus.

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. Having a personal interest in law he presided at public trials and issued up to twenty edicts a day. Claudius was constantly forced to shore up his position; this resulted in the deaths of many senators.