No man can swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC-AD 65) Roman statesman, philosopher, playwright [Lucius Annaeus Seneca] Moral Letters to Lucilius [Epistulae morales ad Lucilium], letter 22 “On the Futility of Halfway Measures,” sec.12 [tr. Gummere (1918)]