Book IV, 6
Histories (100-110)
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 185.
“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.
Letter 12, 6.
Letters, Book IV
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.”
The Author (1763), line 233
Quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 5
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
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.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“Glory. Lovelier to desire than to possess.”
