Posterity

"Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honour'd race."

"Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren, Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren."

"Muore per metà chi lascia un' immagine di se stesso nei figli."

"As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?"

"Our descendants, who will worry very little about our sufferings and will dance on our graves, will laugh at our present ignorance."

"The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "We do much for posterity; I would fain see them do something for us.""

"Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet."

"Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!"

"He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded."

"Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets."

"Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren."

"Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum Rara juventus."

"Ich verachte die Menschheit in allen ihren Schichten; ich sehe es voraus, dass unsere Nachkommen noch weit unglücklicher sein werden, als wir. Sollte ich nicht ein Sünder sein, wenn ich trotz dieser Ansicht für Nachkommen, d. h. für Unglückliche sorgte?"

"Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for us?"

"Culpam majorum posteri luunt."

"Les étrangers sont la postérité contemporaine."

"The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life."

"We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us."

"What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?"

"A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity."