XXIV — The Life of the World to Come
Posthumous Life
I
To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.
Ii
He who wants posthumous fame is as one who would entail land, and tie up his money after his death as tightly and for as long a time as possible. Still we each of us in our own small way try to get what little posthumous fame we can.