Dynamics
Worldly renown is but a breath of wind; coming first from here and then from there, and changes name because it changes quarter. (Dante)
All fame is dangerous: good bringeth envy; bad, shame. (Thomas Fuller)
When glory comes, memory departs. (French Proverb)
The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation. (Shakespeare)
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. (Sir Walter Scott)
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise. (Tacitus)
Even workhouses have their aristocracy. (English Proverb)
There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue. (Richard Steele)
He who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. (Napoleon I)
The great despisers are the great reverers. (Nietzsche)
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence. (Samuel Johnson)
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