If a person knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. — Seneca

If a person knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

In the original Latin

Ignorant, quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

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Provenance
Current citation
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Original citation
Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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