QuoteQuest“cum vero id possis mutata velificatione assequi, stultum est eum tenere cum periculo cursum, quem ceperis, potius quam eo commutato quo velis tamen pervenire, sic,”
— Cicero
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- Wikiquote: Cicero
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
but as in steering a ship one secret of the art is to run before the storm, even if you cannot make the harbour; yet, when you can do so by tacking about, it is folly to keep to the course you have begun rather than by changing it to arrive all the same at the destination you desire:
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Cicero. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Cicero. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero
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