I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. The balance is delicate in the extreme. I know that few of you who read my words have ever thought about your ancestors this way. It has not occurred to you that your ancestors were survivors and that the survival itself sometimes involved […]
Ancestors Quotes
One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
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.
It’s going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
