Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

Framed as a medieval image, the line suggests that people can arrive at the same goal by very different routes—morally, strategically, or emotionally. “Roads” implies choices, detours, and competing methods; “the same castle” implies a shared destination such as power, safety, love, or resolution. In a Martin-esque register, it can also hint that outcomes may converge regardless of intentions: rivals, allies, and opportunists may all end up at the same seat of power, or the same reckoning, even if they traveled by honor, deceit, or necessity. The aphorism thus validates plural paths while quietly warning that convergence does not erase the costs of how one got there.