“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)
Later Additions to the Maxims
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
François de La Rochefoucauld156
French author of maxims and memoirs 1613–1680Related quotes
“Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.”
Drew Karpyshyn book Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
Source: Path of Destruction
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 185.
Abiezer Coppe (1619–1672) English writer
A Fiery Flying Roll (1650)
“The living need charity more than the dead.”
George Arnold (1834–1865) American author and poet
The Jolly Old Pedagogue.
“A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.”
Nixon Waterman (1859–1944) American writer
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.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Cicero in Tusculanae Disputationes, Book I, chapter XV, section 34