“Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.”
"Pensées Tirées des Premières Éditions," Réflexions: Ou, Sentences Et Maximes Morales de La Rochefoucauld (1822)
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La pompe des enterrements regarde plus la vanité des vivants que l'honneur des morts.
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French author of maxims and memoirs 1613–1680Related quotes
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 185.
“The dead are way more organized than the living.”
Source: Un Lun Dun
“The living need charity more than the dead.”
The Jolly Old Pedagogue.
“A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.”
A Rose to the Living, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. Why? I fly, living, through the mouths of men.”
Nemo me lacrumis decoret neque funera fletu
faxit. Cur? volito vivos per ora virum.
As quoted by Cicero in Tusculanae Disputationes, Book I, chapter XV, section 34