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

Ignorant, quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Seneca the Younger

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Topic

Goals Aimlessness

Author

Seneca the Younger

Source

Letters of Seneca the Younger

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

65 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Stoic Philosopher Writer

From

Italy Europe Roman Empire

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Original Citation

Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

Current Citation

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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