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"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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"Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost."
"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."
"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."
"It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill."
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
"Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route."
"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."
"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."
"There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so."
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