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Context: I never dwell on past mistakes… There is too much to plan for the future to waste time complaining. Elsie Mendl was a great friend of mine for many, many years. And I remember the creed by which she lived: Never complain, never explain. Just think of the people you know who are always explaining their mistakes. It merely rubs the whole thing in. You’re reminded again of the mistake. And no one believes the explanation anyway.
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
Un homme heureux est trop content du présent pour trop se soucier de l'avenir.
From "Mes Projets d'Avenir", a French essay written at age 17 for a school exam (18 September 1896). The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Vol. 1 (1987) Doc. 22.
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Variant: A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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Un homme heureux est trop content du présent pour trop se soucier de l'avenir.
De Mes Projets d'Avenir, un devoir d'école en français qu'il a écrit à 17 ans (le [18, septembre, 1896] ).
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