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Arthur Schopenhauer1 quote
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we have, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851Dante Alighieri1 quote
Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Elijah Muhammad1 quote
You will be in the public eye. Beware of them cameras. Oh, them cameras are bad as any narcotic. — Elijah Muhammad · 1992Gustave Flaubert1 quote
The utmost renown never slakes a man's appetite and, unless he is a fool, he almost always dies uncertain of his own fame. — Gustave Flaubert · 1852Henry Adams1 quote
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. — Henry Adams · 1907Henry Austin Dobson1 quote
Fame is a food that dead men eat,-
I have no stomach for such meat. — Henry Austin Dobson · 1906Heraclitus1 quote
The best choose one thing instead of everything, everlasting fame among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle. — HeraclitusJim Carrey1 quote
I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame so that they could see that it’s not where you’re going to find your sense of completion. — Jim Carrey · 2014Michel de Montaigne1 quote
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580Sallust1 quote
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — Sallust · 42 BCVictor Hugo1 quote
Popularity? It is glory's small change. — Victor Hugo · 1838