Quote of William Shakespeare - What is past is prologue....

Biography - William Shakespeare:

English poet, playwright and actor.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1616
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

What is past is prologue.

William Shakespeare - The Tempest

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Note

Source: The Tempest

Internet Archive - Shakespeare - The tempest (en)

Translation

(French, German)

Le passé est un prologue.

William Shakespeare - La Tempête

Was Vergangenheit ist, ist Prolog.

William Shakespeare - Der Sturm

Quotes about the past:

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein /

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Gautama Buddha /

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

René Descartes /

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville /

All about the past...

William Shakespeare also said...

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

What's done cannot be undone.

William Shakespeare - Macbeth /

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Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing /

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

William Shakespeare - Romeo und Julia /

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