Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
Source: Julius Caesar, III:2
-- William Shakespeare, (Apr 23 1564-1616), English dramatist, poet; He is considered the greatest writer in any language for his 154 sonnets and 37 plays, e.g., Hamlet, 1600.