What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 1:9
I've very happily been refuting this verse lately by building a smart robot that could not have existed before modern tech.
"A house divided aginst itself cannot stand," part of a speech by Abe and thus credited to him, is also from the Bible: Mark 3:25. I'va a hunch he was religious.