People often say to themselves in the course of their lives that they should avoid a variety of occupation, and, more especially as they grow older, feel the less inclination to enter upon any new work. But it is all very well to talk thus and give advice to oneself and to others. To grow old is in itself to enter upon a new business; all the circumstances are changed, and a man must either cease altogether from acting or else willingly and consciously take over his new role.
[tr. Rönnfeldt (1900)]

You often say to yourself in the course of your life that you ought to avoid having too much business, "polypragmosyne," and, more especially, that the older you get, the more you ought to avoid entering on new business. But it’s all very well saying this, and giving yourself and others good advice. The very fact of growing older means taking up a new business; all our circumstances change, and we must either stop doing anything at all or else willingly and consciously take on the new role we have to play on life’s stage.
[tr. Stopp (1995); Art and Activity, Vol. 5, No. 2 "Individual Points," #259]

One often says to oneself […] that one ought to avoid having too many different businesses, to avoid becoming a jack-of-all-trades, and that the older one gets, the more one ought to avoid entering into new business. But […] the very fact of growing older means taking up a new business; all our circumstances change, and we must either stop doing anything at all or else willingly and consciously take on the new role we have to play on life’s stage.
[Var. of Stopp]