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The present
condition of fame is merely fashion.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author
True glory
takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like
flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last
long.
-- Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman
Orator, Politician
Glory follows
virtue as if it were its shadow.
-- Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman
Orator, Politician
To want fame
is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
-- E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French
Philosopher
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Acquaintance
lessens fame.
-- Claudius
10 BC-AD 54, Roman Emperor
Of present
fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we
receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are
strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but
they are nothing to the dead.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
I am not
concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be
known.
-- Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical
Teacher, Philosopher
Fame is like a
shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has
slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some
fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
-- Davy Crockett
1786-1836, American
Backwoodsman
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