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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a read more
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.
And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to read more
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.
The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind,
that in the same direction lasts read more
The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind,
that in the same direction lasts not long.
[It., Non e il mondam romore alro che un fiato
Di vento, che vien quinci et or vien quindi,
E muta nome, perche muta lato.]
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
