Letter 75: I do not write to you often -- for what would I say?
To Meterius and Alcimus (359)
I do not write to you often — for what would I even have to write about? The latest of my misfortunes? But if you can bear your own, that is gain enough. That one must endure? I possess no speech so great as that. That you should come visit me? One cannot persuade by merely calling.
Better, then, for those in such a state as mine, not to write at all than to write.
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