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

Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.

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

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

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.