To be or not to be (Deceived) - Following the wrong prophet

Who or what defines your future?

“Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli
“Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.” —David Hume
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
—Solomon (Ecclesiastes 1:9)