Quotes About Legacy

I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.

You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.

We are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion; and since you assure me that the carg0.

it is a law of nature; their fathers died before them, and they mourned their loss; they will die before their children, who will, in their turn, grieve for them.

We have our clothes, some more splendid than others,—this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin;

as Claudius said to Hamlet, `it is a law of nature; their fathers died before them, and they mourned their loss; they will die before their children, who will, in their turn, grieve for them.

So it is true that every one of our actions leaves some trace on our past, either dark or bright. So it is true that every step we take is more like a reptile's progress across the sand, leaving a track behind it. And often, alas, the track is the mark of our tears!

Death, according to the care we take to be on good or bad terms with it, is either a friend which will rock us as gently as a nursing mother or an enemy which will savagely tear apart body and soul.

Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shaksepeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.

Maximilian, said the count, the friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them.

He was the friend of the king, who honored highly, as everyone knows, the memory of his father, Henry IV.

Je vous souhaite une vie assez calme, assez heureuse, et assez remplie pour qu'il n'y ait place pour mon souvenir

it is true, then, that all our actions leave their traces—some sad, others bright—on our paths; it is true that every step in our lives is like the course of an insect on the sands;—it leaves its track! Alas, to many the path is traced by tears.

Va, mon enfant, dit le vieux Dantès, et que Dieu te bénisse dans ta femme comme il m'a béni dans mon fils.

this is the first part of this precious manuscript

It was written," thought poor Cornelius, "that I should not, in this world, give my name either to a child, to a flower, or to a book, the three things by which a man's memory is perpetuated.

Vos sois hijo mío, Dantés! —exclamó el anciano—. Sois el hijo de mi prisión. Mi estado me condenaba al celibato, y Dios os envió a mí para consuelo juntamente del hombre que no podía ser padre, y del preso que no podía ser libre.

the faults of a father cannot revert upon his children.

The name of father is sacred in two senses; he should be reverenced as the author of our being and as a master whom we ought to obey.

A father's sufferings may affect great changes in the mind of a son.

we are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young.

the sins of the fathers shall fall upon their children to the third and fourth generation.

The faults of a father cannot revert upon his children. Few have passed through this revolutionary period, into which we were born, without some stain of infamy or blood.

j'ai encore plus peur de la malédiction des morts que de la haine des vivants.