Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Just actions leave a lasting positive legacy even after death.
In plain terms
Good deeds survive even after the person is gone.
What can you take from it?
Do good so it endures.

Where it applies

  • ethical guidance
  • historical reflection
  • inspiration

Putting it to work

  • act with integrity
  • build reputation
  • help others

Questions to consider

  • What remains after you are gone?
  • Why be just?

Another view

History sometimes forgets the just while remembering the powerful.

More from James Shirley

  1. The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Mu…

    Permalink to quote #4
  2. The honour is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

    Permalink to quote #3
  3. Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

    Permalink to quote #2

Related quotes

  1. In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

    John WesleyJohn Wesley quote #8
  2. The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He ful…

    Adam SmithAdam Smith quote #21
  3. Is it not clear that with all this we are bound to feel ill at ease in an age that likes to claim the distinction of being the most humane, the mildest, and th…

    Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche quote #94