The Letters to Several of His Friends Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: wise, that you are not loo sensible of adversity; but know how to support it with the same advantage to your character. In a word, let it not be said, that forti... more »tude is the single virtue to which my friend is a stranger.10 As for what concerns myself, I will send you an account of the state of this province, and of what is transacting in this part of the world, as soon as I shall hear that you are sufficiently composed to receive the information. FareweL LETTER IV. TO SERVIUS SULPICIUS. I JOIN with you, my dear Sulpicius, in wishing that you had been in Rome when this mostsevere calamity bcfel me. I am sensible of the advantage I should have received from your presence, and I had almost said your equal participation of my grief, by having found myself somewhat more composed after I had read your letter. It furnished me, indeed, with arguments extremelypropertosoothe the anguish of affliction, and evidently flowed from a heart that sym pathised with the sorrows it endeavoured to assuage. But although I could not enjoy the benefit of your own good offices in person, I had the advantage, however, of your son's; who gave me a proof, by every tender assistance that could be contributed upon so melancholy an occasion, how much he imagined that he was acting agreeably to your sentiments, when he thus discovered the affection of his own. More pleasing instances of his friendship I have frequently received, but never any that were more obliging. As to those for which I am indebted to yourself, it is not only the force of your reasonings, and the very considerable share you take in my afflictions, that have contributed to compose my mind; it is the deference likewise, which I always pay to the authority of your sentiments: for knowing, as I perfectly do, the superior wisdom with...« less