“I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.”
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.”
“If we start judging people by their past, they will never have a future.”
“I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.”
“But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.”
“I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.”