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“Love is better than Fame.”

Love Love Is Fame

Author:Bayard Taylor

“Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.”

Ifs Love Facts Values Honesty Fame Recognition Fraud Cash Unreal

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.”

“Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.”

Love Self Enough Helping Causes Forget Love Is Powerful Situation Enemy Principles Achieve Self Love Fame Fortune Obligation Ruling Hostility

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.”

People Want Love Life Moments Truth Fame Being Famous Parallelogram

Book:Think on these things

Source: Think on these things

“The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.”

Love Persons Passion Strong Fame Independent Abstract Intensity Strong Passion

Book:The benefactor: a novel

Source: The benefactor: a novel

“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”

Ifs Men Love Success Work Fame Trade Labour Congratulations Labor Of Love

Book:Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

“Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.”

Ifs Love Should May Light Joy Night Time Sports Loses Sun Fame Prove Vain Length Toys Perpetual Good Will Rumours Celia

Author:Ben Jonson

“The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.”

Love Giving Fame Glory Immense Stimulus

Author:Ovid

“Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson's life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors with something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.”

Love Life Helping Healing Balance Horror Fame Majors Empowering Target Accumulation Guerrillas

Author:Aberjhani

“The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.”

Love Names Fame Authority Ambition Highest Excellence

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.”

Want Love Humans Human Beings Power Four Adventure Fame Divided Components Love Adventure

Author:Matthew Heywood

“Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.”

Love Soul Shows Can Do Kindness Greatness Genius Fame

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.”

Want Love Feels Wanted Fame

Author:Michael Hutchence

“Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than simply a book about a kid who dreams of stardom, Fame Shark is a thoughtful, hilarious and moving love letter to his family and the Lower East Side of New York City.”