Augustine of HippoOn the Exhaustion of Finite Loves
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As in a voyage, when the ship is at anchor, if you go on shore to get water, you may amuse yourself with picking up a shellfish or a truffle in your way, but your thoughts ought to be bent toward the ship, and perpetually attentive, lest the captain should call, and then you must leave all these...
- The Enchiridion
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Epictetus uses the metaphor of a ship at anchor to argue that we must hold our earthly attachments lightly, remaining ever ready to abandon them when fate demands.
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