anyone says best life sail sea, adds sail upon a sea shipwrecks a comm — Seneca, Stoic Philosophy Seneca: Essays Letters

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If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.

Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

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