Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
Ancestors Quotes
From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors.
A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.
If you could see your ancestors, all standing in a row, there might be some among them whom you wouldn’t care to know. But there’s another matter, which requires a different view; if you could see your ancestors, would they be proud of you?
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be man of merit.
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
The pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease.
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
