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Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Culpam majorum posteri luunt.

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Quid quæris, quamdiu vixit? Vixit ad posteros. | Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. | Seneca the Younger, Epistles, XCIII.

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