Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“...posterity was a vaudeville joke audible only to those with front-row seats...” — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless,… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with… — Christopher Caldwell Copy Share Image
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“When you receive what you begged for, it only lasts for a short time. But what you build day after day will… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered,… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“I think of published poets that you could know of...I think [Rainer Maria Rilke] probably has the most great published poems of… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
“... Have you ever reflected that posterity may not be the faultless dispenser of justice that we dream of? One consoles oneself… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods. — Peter Reading Copy Share Image
Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything. — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger Copy Share Image
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