前不見古人，後不見來者

unique / unprecedented (idiom)

front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

not to see / not to meet / to have disappeared / to be missing

to see / to meet / to appear (to be sth) / to interview / opinion / view

to appear / also written 現|现[xian4]

surname Gu

ancient / old / paleo-

people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person

person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-

to come / to arrive / to come round / ever since / next

(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this