Letter 585: Will you never stop treating trifles as treasures and worthless things as priceless?

You don't know it, but we've composed another exercise — and you would certainly have asked for the second after the...

Be such a man for me in the matter of what you are collecting from Basilicus: divide his payment so that he may put...

Whom, indeed, could it better befit to encourage the timid, and rouse the slumbering, than you, my godly lord, who have shown your general excellence in this, too, that you have consented to come down among us, your lowly inferiors, like a true disciple of Him Who said, I am among you, not as a fellow , but as he that serves. Luke 22:27 For you ...

The honours of martyrs ought to be very eagerly coveted by all who rest their hopes on the Lord, and more especially by you who seek after virtue. By your disposition towards the great and good among your fellow servants you are showing your affection to our common Lord. Moreover, a special reason for this is to be found in the tie, as it were, ...

I had believed that nothing could be added to a friendship between us that is already full and long-established.