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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

—Voltaire, 1764

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

—Francis Bacon, 1620

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

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

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

—Albert Camus, 1951

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

—Paul Valéry, 1931

I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC