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Topic·Letting go of the past✕clear
The Renaissance4 quotes
Things without all remedy Should be without regard. What’s done is done. — William Shakespeare · 1616Harp not on that string, madam; that is past. — William Shakespeare · 1597Things past redress are now with me past care. — William Shakespeare · 1595What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief. — William Shakespeare · 1611
Ancient World1 quote
What is over and done with, one does not discuss. What has already taken its course, one does not criticize; what already belongs to the past, one does not censure. — Confucius · 221 BC
Classical antiquity1 quote
Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting? — Marcus Aurelius · 180