Termine ta journée et n’en parlons plus. Tu as fait ce que tu as pu.

Des impairs et des absurdités s’y sont sans doute glissés, mais oublie-les bien vite.

Demain est un autre jour : tâche de bien le commencer et avec sérénité, sans laisser ta bonne humeur s’encombrer de tes sottises passées.

Ralph Waldo Emerson – Correspondance (1854)

You must finish a term and finish every day, and be done with it. For manners, and for wise living, it is a vice to remember.

You have done what you could – some blunders and absurdities no doubt –  crept in forget them as fast as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear with its hopes and invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.