Ancestor Quote by Sallust

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

— Plutarch

“It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”

— Plutarch

To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

— Sallust

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Are we being good ancestors?

— Jonas Salk

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who…

— Ben Jonson

The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

— Juvenal

We must strive to become good ancestors.

— Ralph Nader

Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis;…

— Sallust