59. But what he was with his brother and sister,
though all men were embraced in his good-will, our undivided patrimony
testifies, and the inheritance neither distributed nor diminished, but
preserved. For he said that love was no reason for making a
will. This, too, he signified with his last words, when
commending those whom he had loved, saying that it was his choice never
to marry a wife, that he might not be separated from his brother and
sister, and that he would not make a will, lest our feelings should in
any point be hurt. Lastly, though begged and entreated by us, he
thought that nothing ought to be determined by himself, not, however,
forgetting the poor, but only asking that so much should be given to
them as should seem just to us.