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Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you read more
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument
than why I have one.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument
than why I have one.
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?
What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?
