A Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.
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Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity
are not much more numerous than the planets.
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.
I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.
Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.
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