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“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” — Socrates
FAME, Excellence

0002  A
“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.” — Augustus Hare
FAME, Envy

0003  A
“Reputation is only a... candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.” — James Russell Lowell
FAME, Honor

0004
“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.” — Leszczynski Stanislaus
FAME, Humility, Love

0005  A
“Men’s fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.” — George Villiers
FAME, Ego, Death

0006
“Fame, we may understand is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.” — Thomas Carlyle
FAME, Chance

0007
“Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.” — Henry David Thoreau
FAME, Reward

0008
“When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
FAME, Death, Leadership

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“Now when I bore people at a party, they think it’s their fault.” — Henry Kissinger
FAME, Bores, Perception

FAME Cross-References
Wealth—37 • Motivation—105 • Optimism—123 • Adversity—294-295 • Thought—630 • Vision—648 • Honor—817 • Humility—821, 828 • Ego—908 • Character—929-931 • Sciences—1105 • Authority—1112-1113 • Leadership—1140-1141 • Reward—1212 • Family & Friends—1360 • Age—1438 • Change—1453