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Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

—George Moore, 1888

The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

—Sigmund Freud, 1927

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

—William Jennings Bryan, 1899

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688