They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530
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And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCI 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, 1929Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”
—Persius, c. 60What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515