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He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

—E. R. Dodds, 1951

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

—Julie Burchill, 1986

And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC

Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.

—Epictetus, c. 100

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

—Marilyn Monroe, 1962

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

—Erasmus, 1515
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