“So much easier is it to do many things than to do one thing for a long time continuously.”

—  Quintilian

Book I, Chapter XII, 7; translation by H. E. Butler
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)

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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.

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