That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one might say, “See this is new”? Already it has existed for ages which were before us. There is no remembrance of earlier things; and also of the later things which will occur, There will be for them no remembrance among those who will come later still.
Ecclesiastes: 1:9-11