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“The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.”

Mind May Spirit Consciousness Dangerous Greatness Exercise Fame Satisfaction Possession Active Lasting Ambitious Thrones Steep Ascent

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.”

May Virtue Path Integrity Blessing Pure Fame Hundred Lasting Temporary Posterity Crooked Straight Path

Book:Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving, hide, They blaze abroad, with inconsid'rate pride; While yet but mere probationers for fame, They seize the honor they should then disclaim: Honor so hurried to the light must fade, The lasting laurels nourish in the shade.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.”

Men Has Beens Dies Courses Levels Common Break Fate Dying Objects He Man Fame Glory Hatred Raised Sake Envy Noble Pursue Merit Lasting Usual Submit Strain Posterity Splendor Aversion

Author:Thucydides

“Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.”

People Should Persons Soul Spirit Forever Generations Fame Fortune Enlightened Taoism Lasting Scholarship Passing Away Ephemeral

Author:Zicheng Hong

“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”

Ifs Has Beens Two Able Life Is Values Found Fame Achievement Sake Two Things Lasting I Have Learned Priceless Loving Life

Book:Rama II

Source: Rama II

“All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.”

Mind Dream Body Life Is Land Strange Fame All Things Rivers Streams Delusion Lasting Warfare Oblivion

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations