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“In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.”

Persons Stills Values Lost Virtue Honor Mark Titles Merit Attributes Founders Stamps Grandeur Ancestry Descendants Denominations Intrinsic Value Great Family

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.”

Thinking Men Wells Honor Accounts Sake Noble Treasure Satisfied Honored Splendid Ancestry Descendants Forefathers Hereditary Disgraceful

Author:Plato

“I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.”

Long Broken Honor Ears Tales Noses Ancestor Boast Monument Ancestry Descent Forged Broken Images

Book:The Complete Plays: The alchemist. Catline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair. The devil is an ass. The staple of news. The new inn; or, The light heart. The magnetic lady; or, Humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepard; or, A tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Glossary

Source: The Complete Plays: The alchemist. Catline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair. The devil is an ass. The staple of news. The new inn; or, The light heart. The magnetic lady; or, Humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepard; or, A tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Glossary

“He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor; nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better?”

Knows Men Persons Long Doe Eye Parent Virtue Ought Honor Advantage Blind Ancestor Boast Ancestry Blind Man

Author:Pierre Charron

“It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.”

Men Desire Virtue Honor Deserve Shame Noble Ancestry

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

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