When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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SenecaMoral Letters to Lucilius, Letter LXXI, tr. Richard Gummere
About Seneca
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and author of the Moral Letters to Lucilius. (c. 4 BC-AD 65)
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- We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter XIII, tr. Richard Gummere
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