Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) American writer
The Way to Arcady. Compare Louise Chandler Moulton, The Secret of Arcady (1892).
“Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.”
Source: Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816), Line 68.
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891) occult writer
Collected Writings, vol. IV, p. 603 (October 1889) http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v4/y1883_092.htm
“The Queen neglected Fame for Love.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society
“One falls in love through fame.”
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
Canzone 53, st. 8
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“Vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”
William Shakespeare As You Like It
Source: As You Like It