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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honour'd race.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. Would I not be a criminal if, notwithstanding this view, I should provide for progeny, i.e. for unfortunates? [Ger., Ich verachte die Menschheit in allen ihren Schichten; ich sehe es voraus, dass unsere Nachkommen noch weit unglucklicher sein werden, als wir. Sollte ich nicht ein Sunder sein, wenn ich trotz dieser Ansicht fur Nachkommen, d.h. fur Ungluckliche sorgte?

The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I would fain see them do something for us."

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for us?

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity.

Strangers are contemporary posterity.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.

Posterity gives to every man his true honor.

What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.