Quotes About Legacy

Paid the last debt of nature

that the sins of the fathers shall fall upon their children to the third and fourth generation. Since God himself dictated those words to his prophet, why should I seek to make myself better than God?

On ne s'occupe pas assez, chez nous, de la dernière demeure de ceux qu'on aime : on pare leur lit d'un jour, et on oublie leur couche de l'éternité !

Obsequies, madame, are for those who survive, not for the dead.

Alexandre Dumas

verdad es que todas nuestras acciones dejan huellas, las unas sombrías, las otras luminosas, en nuestro pasado! ¡Verdad es también que nuestros pasos en esta vida se asemejan a la marcha del reptil sobre la arena y dejan un surco! ¡Ay!, para muchos este surco es el de sus lágrimas.

Les gens que nous avons aimé ne seront plus jamais où ils étaient, mais ils sont partout où nous sommes.

Chacun connaît ce retour de l'île d'Elbe, retour étrange, miraculeux, qui, sans exemple dans le passé, restera probablement sans imitation dans l'avenir.

It was worth while, truly," added the young man with a melancholy smile, "to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

Thus the negro transmits the eternal mark of his ignominy to all his descendants; and although the law may abolish slavery, God alone can obliterate the traces of its existence.

But in the course of thirty years a great change took place, and the North refused to perpetuate what had become the peculiar institution of the South, especially as it gave the South a species of aristocratic preponderance.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

We have not to seek to make ourselves like our progenitors, but to strive to work out that species of greatness and happiness which is our own.

It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men;

Are ruins, then, already here?

We should not strive to resemble our fathers but should strain to achieve a type of greatness and happiness which belongs to us alone.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

À voir ce que l'on fut sur terre et ce qu'on laisse Seul le silence est grand; tout le reste est faiblesse.

haunts us every step of our lives.

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.