![The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
[Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-glory-of-ancestors-sheds-a-light-around-posterity-it-allows-neither-good-nor.jpg)
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