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Study the past if you would divine the future.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
 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." 
The next day is never so good as the day before.
The next day is never so good as the day before.
Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
 The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is 
found in the effect was already in the read more 
 The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is 
found in the effect was already in the cause. 
 The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
 [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]  
 The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
 [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.] 
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.