“Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.”
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“How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.”
Source: the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer
“Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
Source: Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and the Death Scene from Phaedo