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“Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.”

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Author:Moses Mendelssohn

“I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.”

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Author:Pietro Aretino

“Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.”

Men Want Young Water Fame Hollywood Fortune Seeking Old Man Young Women

Author:Karrine Steffans

“Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity”

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Author:Vance Havner

“That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.”

Men Fool Fame Monsters

Author:Gucci Mane

“Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.”

Men Industry Fame Idleness Indolence

Author:Tacitus

“The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.”

Men Fame Wisest Reluctant

Author:Tacitus

“A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.”

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Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson