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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

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

—Albert Camus, 1951

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

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

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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