So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

Mika Toimi Waltari ([About this sound] pronunciation (help·info)) (19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Finnish: Sinuhe egyptiläinen).