We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

The image contrasts prudent seamanship with prudent living: just as a vessel is safer when secured by more than one anchor, a person is less vulnerable when their well-being does not depend on a single expectation. Read in a broadly Stoic key, it cautions against staking one’s happiness on any single external outcome—career, relationship, health, reputation—because externals are unstable and not fully within our control. The counsel is not to abandon hope altogether, but to diversify one’s supports and to ground one’s stability in what can be governed: judgment, character, and prepared adaptability. It also implies resilience: when one hope fails, life need not be wrecked.