Tiruvalluvar

“ If you are born (in this world) , be born with qualities conductive to fame. From those who are destitute of them it will be better not to be born.
Kural-237
If you your days will spend devoid of goodly fame,
When men despise, why blame them? You've yourself to blame. ”

“ Are fruits which only wisdom rare can yield.
Prosperity to the body of fame, resulting in poverty to the body of flesh and the stability to the former arising from the death of the latter, are achievable only by the wise. ”