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Film · Historical drama (film) · Drama (film) · Historical drama · Drama

Brothers, what we do in life...echoes in eternity.

Maximus Decimus Meridius

Gladiator · 2000

★ 7.2

Poem

For when the One Great Scorer Comes to mark against your name, He writes-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game.

Grantland Rice

1941

★ 6.9

Poem

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.

Christina Rossetti

1862

★ 3.7

Autobiography and memoir

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams · 1907

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech · Historical literature

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Pericles

Thucydides, Funeral Oration, History of the Peloponnesian War · 430 BC

★ 2.2

Poem · Magazine

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1838

★ 2.1

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

The best choose one thing instead of everything, everlasting fame among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

Heraclitus

★ 2.0

Interview

I don't talk about success, I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

Imogen Cunningham

1975

★ 1.9

Song · Rock music

It's better to burn out Than to fade away.

Neil Young

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) · 1978

★ 1.9

Novel

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Chuck Palahniuk

Invisible Monsters · 1999

★ 1.1

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