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

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"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Fame, Music, Truth, Fleeting

"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name's chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fame, Truth, Legacy, Life

"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fame, Richness, Truth, Values

"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Fame, Fire, May, Will

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Fame, Writer

"A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he's seen often, he's just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Fame, Identity, Truth, Ordinary

"I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Fame, Truth, Reality, Happiness, Wisdom

"Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Fame, Epiphany, Transience, Impermanence

"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fame, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Power

"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

Fame, Flowers, Future, Grave

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"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."

"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name's chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns."

"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."

"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

"A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he's seen often, he's just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way."

"I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star."

"Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious."

"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."

"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

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"No one respects a talent that is concealed."

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"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."

"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."

"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."

"The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men."

"Your library is your paradise."

"Time takes away the grief of men."