The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Past Quotes
There is nothing new under the sun.
In all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same humors, and the same as they always were. So it is an easy thing for whoever examines past things to foresee future (things) in each republic and to take those remedies that were used by the ancients, or not finding […]
Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment.
Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past – and can’t be restored.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
