I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BC
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Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCThey are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCFame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100