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But the fact that the same man finds
fault with my melancholy, and also with my jokes, is a great proof that I was
very moderate in each particular.
You have said that no inheritances come to me. Would that this accusation of
yours were a true one; I should have more of my friends and connections alive.
But how could such a charge ever come into your head? For I have received more
than twenty millions of sesterces in inheritances. Although in this particular I
admit that you have been more fortunate than I. No one has ever made me his heir
except he was a friend of mine, in order that my grief of mind for his loss
might be accompanied also with some gain, if it was to be considered as such.
But a man whom you never even saw, Lucius Rubrius, of Casinum, made you his heir.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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