William Hazlitt Quote

To be remembered after we are dead, is but a poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.


No. 429. - Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)


To be remembered after we are dead, is but a poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but a poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but a poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but a poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.