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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
François de La Rochefoucauld

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
Edward Gibbon - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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Beware of spitting against the wind!"
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Since I grew tired of the chase
And search, I learned to find;
And since the wind blows in my face,
I sail with every wind."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

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And so I leave
On cruel winds
Squalling
And gusting me
Like a dead leaf
Falling."
Paul Verlaine

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