Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906
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Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BCHe who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100