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Fame is something which must be won; honor is something which must not be lost. Arthur Schopenhauer

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon

Fame is proof that the people are gullible. Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. Jean de la Bruyere

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town. Truman Capote

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. Erica Jong

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. Baruch Spinoza

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. Blaise Pascal

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism. Desiderius Erasmus

The highest form of vanity is love of fame. George Santayana

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. E M Cioran

Your earthly fame is but a gust of wind that blows about, shifting this way and that, and as it changes quarter, changes name. Dante Alighieri

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled. Livy

The worst thing about being famous? I think it's what everybody says...the lack of privacy and the idea that you're not really allowed to make mistakes and everything that you do is viewed under a microscope. Madonna

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race. Johann Georg Zimmermann