Sirach 44:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ all these were honored in their generations,
    and were the pride of their times.
⁸ Some of them have left behind a name,
    so that others declare their praise.
⁹ But of others there is no memory;
    they have perished as though they had never existed;
they have become as though they had never been born,
    they and their children after them.