A passage from Seneca

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius Letter 2

Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances but no friends.
Seneca·Letters to Lucilius·Letter 2·trans. Richard Gummere
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