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The Renaissance4 quotes
Ancient times were the youth of the world. — Francis Bacon · 1605What's done cannot be undone. — William Shakespeare · 1616Things without all remedy
Should be without regard. What’s done is done. — William Shakespeare · 1616What's past is prologue. — William Shakespeare · 1616Classical antiquity3 quotes
For the one thing even God cannot do is change the past. — AgathonThis only is denied even to God,
The power to make what has been done undone. — Agathon · 350 BCThere were poets before Homer. — Cicero · 46 BCAncient 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 BCMiddle Ages1 quote
If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good. — Venerable Bede · 731