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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The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941The 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, 1888Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCThe 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