1As soon as he emerged from these troubles, he did nothing else than give help to as many people as possible in whatever ways he could. 1When the common people, lured by the generals' rewards, were hunting down the proscribed, nobody came to Epirus who lacked anything: everyone was granted the right to stay there permanently; 2indeed, after the battle of Philippi and the deaths of Gaius Cassius and Marcus Brutus, he undertook to protect Lucius Julius Mocilla, a former praetor, and his son, and Aulus Torquatus and the others struck down by the same fortune, and ordered everything to be conveyed to them from Epirus to Samothrace. 2It is difficult to go through everything, and not necessary.
3This one thing we wish to be understood, that his generosity was neither opportunistic nor calculating. 4This can be judged from the facts and the circumstances themselves, because he did not court the prosperous but always came to the help of the afflicted: indeed he showed no less regard for Servilia, the mother of Brutus, after his death than when she was flourishing. 5Practising generosity in this way, he had no feuds, because he neither injured anyone nor, if he had received some wrong, did he fail to prefer forgetting it to avenging it. 5He also kept the kindnesses he had received in undying memory; 5but those he himself had bestowed he remembered only as long as the man who had received them remained grateful.
6And so he made it seem truly said: 'Each man's own character shapes his fortune.' 6Yet he did not shape his fortune before he had shaped himself, taking care that he should not deservedly be punished in any matter.