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“So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.”

Facts Certain Turns Doubt Importance Falsehood Posterity Obscurity Exaggerated Transactions Precarious Hearsay

Book:The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. With Notes ...

Source: The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. With Notes ...

“A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.”

History Posterity

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“Posterity is always just.”

Reputation Posterity

Book:The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes

Source: The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes

“A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.”

Thinking Giving Should Book Ideas Whole Might Wish Thousand Corners Discussion Chapters Posterity Hints Miscellaneous

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.”

Sex Numbers Example Limits Six Queens Mature Humankind Modesty Moderation Posterity Competent Deliberation

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.”

Men Giving Values History Every Man Posterity True Value

Author:Tacitus

“The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.”

Writing Wisdom Wise Riches Posterity

Book:Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men

Source: Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men

“If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.”

Ifs Doe Conquest Posterity Compact

Author:Charlotte Turner Smith

“A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered.”

Age Comedy Weakness Paint Manners Faithful Pleasant Metaphysical Posterity Novelty Impartiality

Book:The History of England, vol. 1~6, Completed: Revision of Great Book

Source: The History of England, vol. 1~6, Completed: Revision of Great Book

“If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our topics of conversation, it is difficult not to see that a very remarkable change in several respects has come into our ideas; a change which, by its rapidity, seems to us to foreshadow another still greater. Time alone will tell the aim, the nature and limits of this revolution, whose inconveniences and advantages our posterity will recognize better than we can.”

“Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.”

“And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.”

Knows Science Ancient Posterity

Author:Pierre de Fermat

“The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity.”

Children Earth Mother Heaven Ultimate Our Children Treasure Posterity Being A Mother

Author:Dallin H. Oaks