[7]
On this principle, why not advise
farmers not to cultivate corn, vines, olives and
orchard trees at the same time? or from devoting
themselves simultaneously to pastures, cattle, gardens, bees and poultry? Why do we ourselves daily
allot some of our time to the business of the courts,
some to the demands of our friends, some to our
domestic affairs, some to the exercise of the body,
and some even to our pleasures? Any one of these
occupations, if pursued without interruption, would
fatigue us. So much easier is it to do many things
than to do one thing for a long time continuously.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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