“Your honor, your name, your praise will live forever.”
Semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 609 (tr. Fagles); Aeneas to Dido.
Source: The Titan's Curse
“Your honor, your name, your praise will live forever.”
Semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 609 (tr. Fagles); Aeneas to Dido.
Philip Plait (1964) astronomer, skeptic
Source: Death from the Skies! (2008), p. 75-76
Source: Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
“You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
Last words, quoted in Hugh Pearsons (1994) The Shadow of the Panther, p. 315
“I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.”
Maggie Nelson (1973) American writer
Source: The Argonauts
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
"Sonnet: Do not believe when lovely lips report"
To Lady Diana Cooper. See her memoir, The Light of Common Day (Boston: Houghton, 1959), pp. 27–28
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
On his musical work
Ebony interview (2007)
“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.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Cicero in Tusculanae Disputationes, Book I, chapter XV, section 34