When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca makes the point in a letter to his friend Lucilius about the value of a settled purpose: without a destination, even favourable circumstances are of no use. The wording is Richard Gummere’s 1917 Loeb translation, which is in the public domain.
If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you, or filched away, or has merely slipped from your hands.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.