He was not easily shaken or upset. He loved being steady — staying in the same places and doing the same work. After his bad headaches, he would come back fresh and ready for his duties. He kept few secrets, and only about public matters. He showed good judgment in putting on public shows and games for the people. He built public buildings and gave money to citizens. In all of this, he treated people simply as people. He cared about fairness, not about the fame it might bring him. He never used the public baths at odd hours. He was not obsessed with building projects. He did not fuss over his food, or the quality and color of his clothes, or anything that was just for show.
Again, how he was not easily moved and tossed up and down, but loved to be constant, both in the same places and businesses; and how after his great fits of headache he would return fresh and vigorous to his wonted affairs. Again, that secrets he neither had many, nor often, and such only as concerned public matters: his discretion and moderation, in exhibiting of the public sights and shows for the pleasure and pastime of the people: in public buildings. congiaries, and the like. In all these things, having a respect unto men only as men, and to the equity of the things themselves, and not unto the glory that might follow. Never wont to use the baths at unseasonable hours; no builder; never curious, or solicitous, either about his meat, or about the workmanship, or colour of his clothes, or about anything that belonged to external beauty.