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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

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

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC

I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.

—Madonna, c. 1985

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

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

—Persius, c. 60
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