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Posterity Quotes
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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. (Quote by - J. C. F. von Schiller)
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me? (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. (Quote by - Jorge Luis Borges)
Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they. (Quote by - Cowper)
Posterity gives every man his true value. (Quote by - Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot what has it ever done to oblige me? (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. (Quote by - Quintus Curtius Rufus)
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past." (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
The function of posterity is to look after itself. (Quote by - Dylan Thomas)
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity. (Quote by - Horace Binney Wallace)