Nepos, Atticus 17

1But as to Atticus' devotion to his family, why should I say more? 1For I heard him truly boast of this very thing at the funeral of his mother, whom he buried at the age of ninety, when he was himself sixty-seven: that he had never had to be reconciled with his mother, and had never been at odds with his sister, who was nearly his own age. 2This is a sign either that no complaint ever arose between them, or that he showed such indulgence towards his family that he considered it wrong to be angry with those whom he ought to love. 3Nor did he do this by nature alone, although we all obey her, but also by learning: for he had so taken in the precepts of the leading philosophers that he used them for living his life, not for display.