21. I feel, indeed, that my mind is touched by the
repetition of thy services and the enumeration of thy virtues, and yet
in being thus affected I find my rest, and although these memories
renew my grief, they nevertheless bring pleasure. Am I able
either not to think of thee, or ever to think of thee without
tears? And shall I ever be able either not to remember such a
brother, or to remember him without tearful gratitude? For what
has ever been pleasant to me that has not had its source in thee?
What, I say, has ever been a pleasure to me without thee, or to thee
without me? Had we not every practice in common, almost to our
very eyesight and our sleep? Were our wills ever at
variance? And what step did we not take in common? So that
we almost seemed in raising our feet to move each other’s
body.