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“Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.”

Author:David Giuntoli

“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

“Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection; and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.”

Kind Action Passion Virtue Impossible Fame Degrees Approach Capable Sake Affection Former Vanity Latter Mixtures

Book:Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book

Source: Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book

“Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?”

Thinking Men Children Home Water Risk Danger Fame Fingers Sake Bones

Author:Karen Essex

“The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even for his children, but for his masculinity, and at any point in his life he may be tempted to throw over the things for which he regularly lays down his life for the sake of that masculinity. He may keep this passion secret from women, and he may even deny it to himself, but the other boys know it about themselves and the wiser ones know it about the rest of us as well.”

Knows Men Wells May Children Passion Wealth Secret Boys Fame Lays Sake Deny Toys Wiser Masculinity Tempted Great Passion

Author:Frank Pittman

“O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.”

Ifs Eye Fame Praise Sake Dear Delight Phrases Unworthy Bright Eyes Dear Ones

Book:Selected Poems of Lord Byron

Source: Selected Poems of Lord Byron

“If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."”

Ifs Care Fame Sake Ridiculous About Yourself Being Famous

Author:Mos Def

“Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.”

People Want Fame Sake Boundaries Toxic Unhealthy No Boundaries Unhealthy Obsession

Author:Annie Lennox

“I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag.”

Ideas Care Cutting Wife Written Son Ready Fame Red Claims Sake Don't Care Bones Bunch Idiot I Don't Care Sand Hats Bags Throat Exes Homeland Hares Sandals Ex Wife Totes

Author:Michael Chabon

“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

“It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.”

Play Use Games Blood Talent Genius Fame Skills Gold Sake Pens Thrones

Book:The Romance of the Commonplace

Source: The Romance of the Commonplace

“We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.”

Men Way Want Should Desire Our Lives Judging Depends Fame Judgment Sake Favors Reputation Despite Labels Motive Bias Peril Preoccupation

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld