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“Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“Simple, generous goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
“These people will never understand him! He’ll be famous — a legend — I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future — there will be books written about Harry — every child in our world will know his name!” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.” William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
“I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.” William Shakespeare, Henry V
“A philosopher is recognised by the fact that he shuns three brilliant and noisy things— fame, princes, and women: which is not to say that they do not come to him.” Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality
“Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“Too much to know is to know nought but fame; and every godfather can give a name.” William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.” Confucius, Analects
“fame clearly isn’t everything.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“It is a good lesson—though it may often be a hard one—for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are...” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” George Eliot, Middlemarch

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