Posterity Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Posterity.
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“Culpam majorum posteri luunt.”
“Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.”
“Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!”
“A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.”
“Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum
Rara juventus.”
“Les étrangers sont la postérité contemporaine.”
“Herself the solitary scion left
Of a time-honour'd race.”
“He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.”
“Muore per metà chi lascia un' immagine di se stesso nei figli.”
“Wikipedia: Posterity”
“As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?”
“Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren;
Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.”
“Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren,
Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.”
“We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.”
“Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for us?”
“Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.”
“The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.”
“What has poster'ty done for us,
That we, lest they their rights should lose,
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?”
“Our descendants, who will worry very little about our sufferings and will dance on our graves, will laugh at our present ignorance.”