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Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
[It., Muore per meta chi lascia read more
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
[It., Muore per meta chi lascia un' immagine di se stesso nei
figi.]
The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public
business: "we do much for posterity; read more
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."
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have read more
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style
Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu read more
Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ad posteros.]
As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot)
what has it ever done to oblige read more
As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot)
what has it ever done to oblige me?
Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
[Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
[Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for
posterity; for what has posterity done read more
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for
posterity; for what has posterity done for us?
