His urbanity found its habitual expression not
 in jokes but in his manner; and when on his dignity, he was never arrogant,
 but always reasonable; at least, if he showed his contempt for the haughty,
 he was humbler than the average man. For he prided himself on the simplicity
 of his own dress and the splendid equipment of his army, on a strict
 limitation of his own needs and a boundless generosity to his friends.