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  1. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the posies that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead; the dead are gone, either to a place where they hear them not, or where, if they do, they will despise them.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 277 (1822)

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  2. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the posies that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead; the dead are gone, either to a place where they hear them not, or where, if they do, they will despise them.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 277 (1822)

    More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

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  3. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the posies that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead; the dead are gone, either to a place where they hear them not, or where, if they do, they will despise them.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 277 (1822)

    More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

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  4. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the posies that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead; the dead are gone, either to a place where they hear them not, or where, if they do, they will despise them.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 277 (1822)

    More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

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  5. A quotation from Cicero

    But there is in fact nobody who is so hostile to the Muses that he would not readily allow his own deeds to be immortalized in verse.
     
    [Neque enim quisquam est tam aversus a Musis, qui non mandari versibus aeternum suorum laborum facile praeconium patiatur. ]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 9 / sec. 20 (62 BC) [tr. Guinach (1962)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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  6. A quotation from Cicero

    Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
     
    [Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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  7. A quotation from Cicero

    Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
     
    [Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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  8. A quotation from Cicero

    Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
     
    [Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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  9. A quotation from Cicero

    Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
     
    [Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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  10. A quotation from Cicero

    Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
     
    [Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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  11. A quotation from Josh Billings

    I hope i shall never hav so mutch reputashun, that i shant feel obliged tew be civil.
     
    [I hope I shall never have so much reputation, that I shan’t feel obliged to be civil.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1870-03 (1870 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/80861/

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  12. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 1, The Colour of Magic (1993)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8077…

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  13. A quotation from Galbraith

    If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

    John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) Canadian-American economist, diplomat, author
    Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went, ch. 13 “The Self Inflicted Wounds” (1975)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/galbraith-john-kenne…

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  14. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
     
    [Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 7, ch. 21 (7.21) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7926…

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  15. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-12-22), The Spectator, No. 255

    More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/78975…

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  16. A quotation from Horace

    Now give attention and your gowns refold,
       Who thirst for fame, grow yellow after gold,
    Victims to luxury, superstition blind,
       Or other ailment natural to the mind:
    Come close to me and listen, while I teach
       That you’re a pack of madmen, all and each.
     
    [Audire atque togam iubeo conponere, quisquis
    Ambitione mala aut argenti pallet amore,
    Quisquis luxuria tristive superstitione
    Aut alio mentis morbo calet ; hue propius me,
    Dum doceo insanire omnes, vos ordine adite.]

    Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, “Si raro scribes,” l. 77ff (2.3.77-81) (30 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/77623/

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  17. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage, that, however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him; but, on the contrary, if they fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him, though they might raise the reputation of another, they are diminution to his.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-12-24), The Spectator, No. 256

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/76871…

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  18. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come — dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.
     
    [μικρὸν μὲν οὖν ὃ ζῇ ἕκαστος: μικρὸν δὲ τὸ τῆς γῆς γωνίδιον ὅπου ζῇ: μικρὸν δὲ καὶ ἡ μηκίστη ὑστεροφημία καὶ αὕτη δὲ κατὰ διαδοχὴν ἀνθρωπαρίων τάχιστα τεθνηξομένων καὶ οὐκ εἰδότων οὐδὲ ἑαυτοὺς οὐδέ γε τὸν πρόπαλαι τεθνηκότα.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 3, ch. 10 (3.10) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7602…

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  19. A quotation from Chamfort, Nicolas:

    «
    Esteem is worth more than celebrity, respect is worth more than renown, and honor is worth more than fame.

    [L’estime vaut mieux que la célébrité, la considération vaut mieux que la renommée, et l’honneur vaut mieux que la gloire.]
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/737

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  20. A quotation from Chamfort, Nicolas:

    «
    Esteem is worth more than celebrity, respect is worth more than renown, and honor is worth more than fame.

    [L’estime vaut mieux que la célébrité, la considération vaut mieux que la renommée, et l’honneur vaut mieux que la gloire.]
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/737

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  21. A quotation from Chamfort, Nicolas:

    «
    Esteem is worth more than celebrity, respect is worth more than renown, and honor is worth more than fame.

    [L’estime vaut mieux que la célébrité, la considération vaut mieux que la renommée, et l’honneur vaut mieux que la gloire.]
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/737

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  22. A quotation from Bolt, Robert:

    «
    MORE: Why not be a teacher? You’d be a fine teacher. Perhaps even a great one.
    RICH: And if I was who would know it?
    MORE: You, your pupils, your friends, God. Not a bad public, that.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/bolt-robert/1016/

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