which fortune gives an abundant supply, he used without arrogance and
without excusing himself; so that when he had them, he enjoyed them
without affectation, and when he had them not, he did not want them. No
one could ever say of him that he was either a sophist or a [home-bred]
flippant slave or a pedant; but every one acknowledged him to be a man
ripe, perfect, above flattery, able to manage his own and other men's
affairs. Besides this, he honored those who were true philosophers, and
he did not reproach those who pretended to be philosophers, nor yet was
he easily led by them. He was also easy in conversation, and he made
himself agreeable without any offensive affectation. He took a reasonable
care of his body's health, not as one who was greatly attached to life,
nor out of regard to personal appearance, nor yet in a careless way, but
so that through his own attention he very seldom stood in need of the
physician's art or of medicine or external applications. He was most
ready to give without envy to those who possessed any particular faculty,
such as that of eloquence or knowledge of the law or of morals, or of
anything else; and he gave them his help, that each might enjoy
reputation according to his deserts; and he always acted conformably to
the institutions of his country, without showing any affectation of doing
so. Further, he was not fond of change nor unsteady, but he loved to stay
in the same places, and to employ himself about the same things; and
after his paroxysms of headache he came immediately fresh and vigorous to
his usual occupations. His secrets were not many, but very few and very
rare, and these only about public matters; and he showed prudence and
economy in the exhibition of the public spectacles and the construction
of public buildings, his donations to the people, and in such things, for
he was a man who looked to what ought to be done, not to the reputation
which is got by a man's acts. He did not take the bath at unseasonable
hours; he was not fond of building houses, nor curious about what he ate,
nor about the texture and color of his clothes, nor about the beauty of