Fame
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Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness
Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition
Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame
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
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows
Fame is proof that people are gullible
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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