Auguste Renoir Quotes

History goes in cycles.

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

History repeats itself, first as history, then as farce.

History repeats itself–the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

What once happened will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall combine in the same way.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

History never repeats itself in the same way.

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

All poetry comes from repetition.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.