“I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.”
Rene Descartes
“After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style”
Isaac Disraeli
“Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.”
Benjamin Franklin
“This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]”
Voltaire
“Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it. . .”
Abraham Lincoln
“And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.”
Pierre de Fermat
“Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put”
Euripides
