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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK SEVEN, 1-35
...6. How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead. 7. Be...
...34. About fame: Look at the minds of those who seek fame, observe what they are, and what kind of things they avoid, and what kind of things they pursue....
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK TWO
...the bait of pleasure or terrify by pain, or are noised abroad by vapoury fame; how worthless, and contemptible, and sordid, and perishable, and dead they...
...to putrefaction, and the soul a whirl, and fortune hard to divine, and fame a thing devoid of judgement. And, to say all in a word, everything which...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK FOUR
...pleasure, and be quiet at last.- But perhaps the desire of the thing called fame will torment thee.- See how soon everything is forgotten, and look at...
...19. He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon; then...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK SIX
...of tongues. Suppose then that thou hast given up this worthless thing called fame, what remains that is worth valuing? This in my opinion, to move...
...serenity of his countenance, and his sweetness, and his disregard of empty fame, and his efforts to understand things; and how he would never let...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK EIGHT, 1-31
...1. This reflection also tends to the removal of the desire of empty fame, that it is no longer in thy power to have lived the whole of thy life, or at...
...superior to pleasure and pain: thou hast leisure to be superior to love of fame, and not to be vexed at stupid and ungrateful people, nay even to care...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK TWELVE, 1-18
...surely will not trouble himself by looking after raiment and dwelling and fame and such like externals and show. 3. The things are three of which thou...
...purposes of actions; consider what pain is, what pleasure is, and death, and fame; who is to himself the cause of his uneasiness; how no man is hindered...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK THREE
...the nook of the earth where he lives; and short too the longest posthumous fame, and even this only continued by a succession of poor human beings, who...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK FIVE
...it when it is said of wealth, and of the means which further luxury and fame, as said fitly and wittily. Go on then and ask if we should value and think...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK TWELVE, 19-36
...greatly about anything, those who have been most conspicuous by the greatest fame or misfortunes or enmities or fortunes of any kind: then think where...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK EIGHT, 32-61
...secure this present time to thyself: for those who rather pursue posthumous fame do consider that the men of after time will be exactly such as these...
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