Distribute all that can be said on both sides under certain heads, which imprint strongly in your memory; and whatever your adversary says, refer it to your own division, and not to his[50]." Grotius's great attention was to avoid prolixity and confusion in his pleadings[51].
The employment of an advocate, though he acquired infinite honour by it, did not however please him.

The reasons of his dislike we have in a letter to Daniel Heinsius, dated July 21, 1603.

"Besides that law-suits are improper for a peaceable man, what doth he derive from them?
They procure him hatred from those against whom he pleads, small acknowledgments from his clients, and not much honour with the Public.
Add to this, that the time spent in things so little agreeable, might be employed in acquiring others much more useful.

I should have been a better philosopher, more master of the Greek, better acquainted with the manners of the Ancients, with the Poets, and Philologists, if I had practiced less as an Advocate." FOOTNOTES: [50] Ep.1134.p.

512.
[51] Ibid.
XVII.