Julian

“ It is an occasion to rejoice the more when one has the chance to address friends through an intimate friend. For then it is not only by what you write that you unite the image of your own soul with your readers. ”

“ And if you care at all for your admirers, as I believe you do care, you will prove it by never missing an opportunity while you are able to write.
Footnotes
↑ This letter is rejected by Schwarz, Cumont and Geffcken; Schwarz on the slender evidence of style classes it with the apocryphal letters to Iamblichus; Cumont also places it in that series, and thinks that this Sopater is the friend of the elder Iamblichus executed by Constantine. ↑ No forger would have referred to children of Julian's body; but the phrase may refer to his writings. ”