“Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.”

—  Claudian

Peragit tranquilla potestas
quod violenta nequit; mandataque fortius urget
imperiosa quies.
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli, lines 239-241 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Manlio_Theodoro*.html#239.

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Peragit tranquilla potestas<br/>quod violenta nequit; mandataque fortius urget<br/>imperiosa quies.

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Claudian 11
Roman Latin poet 370–404

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