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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
我们总是在为后代做一些事情，但我希望看到后代为我们做一些事情。
— Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生
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更多好句 ↗The function of posterity is to look after itself.
后代的功能是照顾自己。
Dylan Thomas
狄兰·托马斯
Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
既然我们不能活得长久，那就让我们把至少还活过的一些纪念留给后代吧。
E. Joseph Cossman
E.约瑟夫·科斯曼
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
这是子孙后代的特权，使那些因追求伟大而分裂了整个时代的对手之间的事情变得正确。
Joseph Addison
约瑟夫·艾迪生
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
我想人们不会因为什么而记住我。但我不会用这些术语来思考我的工作。为子孙后代而工作和为金钱而工作一样庸俗。
Oscar Levant
马刀舞曲
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
当我们为后代做打算时，我们应该记住美德不是遗传的。
Thomas Paine
托马斯·潘恩
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
如果征服不能约束子孙后代，那么契约也不能约束子孙后代。
Charlotte Smith
夏洛特·史密斯女士