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this he gave up to his sister all that he had inherited from his father, though his mother invited him to share it equally, and replied that he was content with being his grandfather's heir, adding that his mother too, if she were willing, should bestow her property upon his sister, that his sister might be on an equality with her husband.

When however he learnt that he had been adopted by Hadrian, he was more abashed than pleased, and when bidden to migrate to Hadrian's private house, he left his mother's mansion with regret. And when the household asked him why he took his adoption into the royal house so sadly, he enlarged upon the evils inseparable from sovran power.

The sentence of Plato was for ever on his lips: Well was it for states, if either philosophers were rulers or rulers philosophers.

If anyone did anything excellent, he praised him and utilized him for that, but did not expect other things from him, saying, It is impossible to make men exactly as 361