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Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Lucius  Accius (or Attius)

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

George Matthew  Adams

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alan  Alda

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less. . . .

Hannah  Arendt

All is ephemeral — fame and the famous as well.

Marcus  Aurelius Antoninus

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.

Robert Charles  Benchley

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Alan  Bennett

Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Ambrose Gwinett  Bierce

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