What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515
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Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC