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They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

—Martin Luther, c. 1530

And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

—Al Capone, 1929

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”

—Persius, c. 60

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

—Erasmus, 1515
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