Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 185.
“Some might consider him as too fond of fame; for the desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.”
Book IV, 6
Histories (100-110)
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Roman senator and historian 54–120Related quotes
“Those who are actuated by the desire of fame and glory are amazingly gratified by approbation and praise, even though it comes from their inferiors.”
Omnes enim, qui gloria famaque ducuntur, mirum in modum assensio et laus a minoribus etiam profecta delectat.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 12, 6.
Letters, Book IV
James Joyce book The Dead
Dubliners (1914)
Variant: One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Source: "The Dead"
“Men the most infamous are fond of fame,
And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.”
Charles Churchill (satirist) (1731–1764) British poet
The Author (1763), line 233
Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint
Quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 5
Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
Debating Linus Pauling, in The Nuclear Bomb Tests...Is Fallout Overrated? : Fallout and Disarmament KQED-TV, San Francisco (20 February 1958) http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/peace/papers/1958p2.1.html <br class="br">Context: I don't want to kill anybody. I am passionately opposed to killing, but I'm even more passionately fond of freedom. The freedom of Dr. Pauling and of myself expressing our opinions freely on any subject, however broad, however far removed of our proper competence, but particularly, to be able to express our opinions in the fields we really know; this would not be possible in Russia.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
