keep to the Present (Pascal)

47 "We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wonder about in times that do not belong to us; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is"