Posterity Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.”

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, Family, Posterity, Human Nature, Societal Impact

2. “We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.”

Thomas Jefferson

Debts, Posterity, Responsibility, Ethics, Civic Duty

3. “Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.”

Thomas Jefferson

Legacy, Posterity, Responsibility, Environment, Planning

4. “What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.”

Marcel Proust

Posterity, Art Legacy, Timeless Work, Enduring Art, Creative Impact, Cultural Memory

5. “Think of it. To go down to posterity as a ‘man who lived among the cannibals.’”

Herman Melville

Posterity, Cultural Immersion, Cannibalism, Adventure, Legacy, Exploration

6. “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

Legacy Spirit, Posterity, Respect, Sympathize, Identity, Portrait

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