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A ship in harbour is safe...



A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.


A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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Translation

Translation

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French
Le bateau est plus en sécurité quand il est au port ; mais ce n'est pas pour cela qu'ont été construits les bateaux.

German
Ein Schiff im Hafen ist sicher, doch dafür werden Schiffe nicht gebaut.



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You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.
Alan Watts

There are hurricanes in human affairs, tempests of passion, when it is wise to retire to a harbor and ride it out at anchor. Remedies often make diseases worse.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
André Gide

All man's misfortune consists in this one thing, his inability to remain quietly in one room.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.


You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal



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- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 / 





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