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“Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.”

Men Lasts Desire Wise Fame Weakness

Book:The Plays

Source: The Plays

“Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.”

Feelings Wisdom Eye Suffering Loss Wise Fame Gains Praise Blame Calm Disgrace Hurricanes Gains And Losses

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.”

Men Writing Country Wise Fame Motive Avarice Authorship Instructors

Book:The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

“The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.”

Men Mean Able Passion Natural Wise Fame Universal Ignorant Despise

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.”

Wisdom Action Known Wise Fame Immortality

Author:Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

“The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.”

Thinking Men Enough Wise Fame Despised

Author:Epicurus

“A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!”

Beautiful Desire Wise Pure Fame Distance Reputation Dirty Lakes

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of swiftrolling time. Let us make happy the circle around us,--be useful as much as we may. For that fills up with soft rapture, that dissolves the dark clouds of the day!”

May Action Dark Known Wise Fame Mark Clouds Deeds Circles Immortality Rapture Vanishing Dark Clouds Make Happy

Author:Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

“It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.”

Men Opinion Wise Fame Judgment Uncertain

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.”

People Way America Rooms Wise Share Crazy College Fame Normal Stranger Eight Rebellion Looking Back Bathroom Dorms Normal Things Advisable Coed

Author:Emma Watson

“The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.”

Lasts Wise Fame Weakness

Author:Tacitus

“The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.”

Lasts Desire Wise Fame Glory Casts Infirmity

Book:The History of Tacitus

Source: The History of Tacitus