He read many wise things in books, but he could only judge from his own experience (he did not know whether he was different from other people); he did not calculate the
pros and cons of an action, the benefits which must befall him if he did it, the harm which might result from the omission; but his whole being was urged on irresistibly.
``Et vobis quaso, domine reverendissime,
pro misericordia vestra.''
Tiberius in a letter to him saith, Haec
pro amicitia nostra non occultavi; and the whole senate dedicated an altar to Friendship, as to a goddess, in respect of the great dearness of friendship, between them two.