there is nothing new under the sun

Etymology
, itself a calque from the found in Ecclesiastes 1:9.

Proverb

 * 1) There is nothing truly novel in existence; every new idea has some sort of precedent or echo from the past.

Translations

 * Arabic: فليس تحت الشمس جديد
 * Armenian: արևի տակ ոչ մի նոր բան չկա
 * Basque: ezer berririk eguzkiaren azpian
 * Bulgarian: нищо ново под слънцето
 * Catalan: no hi ha res de nou sota el sol
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 日光之下並無新事
 * Mandarin: 日光之下並無新事
 * Czech: nic nového pod sluncem
 * Danish: intet nyt under solen
 * Dutch: niets nieuws onder de zon
 * Esperanto: nenio nova sub la suno
 * Finnish: ei mitään uutta auringon alla, ei uutta auringon alla
 * French:
 * Galician: nada novo baixo o sol
 * Georgian: არაფერია მზის ქვეშ ახალი
 * German: nichts Neues unter der Sonne
 * Greek: ουδέν καινόν υπό τον ήλιον
 * Ancient: οὐκ ἔστι πᾶν πρόσφατον ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian: nincs új a nap alatt
 * Italian: niente di nuovo sotto il sole
 * Japanese: 日の下に新しきものなし
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: nihil sub sole novum, nihil sub sole novi
 * Latvian: tas nav nekas jauns
 * Lithuanian: nieko naujo po saule
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: intet nytt under solen
 * Nynorsk: ingenting nytt under sola
 * Persian: هیچ چیز جدیدی در زیر خورشید نیست
 * Polish: nic nowego pod słońcem
 * Portuguese: nada de novo sob o sol, nada de novo debaixo do sol
 * Romanian: nimic nou sub soare
 * Russian: ничто не ново под луной
 * Serbo-Croatian: nema ništa novo pod suncem, нема ништа ново под сунцем
 * Slovak: nič nové pod slnkom
 * Slovene: nič novega pod soncem
 * Spanish: nada nuevo bajo el sol
 * Swedish: inget nytt under solen
 * Turkish: güneşin altında yeni bir şey yok
 * Ukrainian: нічого нового під сонцем
 * Welsh: dim byd newydd dan yr haul