Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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Confucius ( kən-FEW-shəs; 551–479 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period.

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

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Respect yourself and others will respect you.

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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

—William Ralph Inge

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

—Sir William Osler

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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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