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Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 110

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BC

He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

—E. R. Dodds, 1951

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

—Martin Luther, c. 1530

Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.

—Epictetus, c. 100
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