Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is
deprived, the power of making things that are past read more

Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is
deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have
been."

You have to know the past to understand the present.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my read more

Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

The next day is never so good as the day before.

The next day is never so good as the day before.

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.