That I was not skilled in rhetoric and poetry and other subjects that I might have spent too much time on if I had been good at them. That I promoted the people who raised me to the positions they wanted while they could still enjoy them. I didn't make them wait with promises that I would reward them later when they were older. That I got to know Apollonius and Rusticus and Maximus.
That I was no great proficient in the study of rhetoric and poetry, and of other faculties, which perchance I might have dwelt upon, if I had found myself to go on in them with success. That I did by times prefer those, by whom I was brought up, to such places and dignities, which they seemed unto me most to desire; and that I did not put them off with hope and expectation, that (since that they were yet but young) I would do the same hereafter. That I ever knew Apollonius and Rusticus, and Maximus.