legacy Quotes

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.