Definition of Posterity

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Posterity

The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.

Succeeding generations; future times.

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Posterity Quotations

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
Groucho Marx

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes

The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Robert E. Lee

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
John Quincy Adams

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke

Posterity Translations

posterity in Dutch is nageslacht
posterity in German is Nachwelt
posterity in Latin is proles, posteri
posterity in Spanish is posteridad

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