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
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
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
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce
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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