The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana
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The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority — that of time.
William Hazlitt
Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have acquired.
Samuel Johnson
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature — a type nowhere at present existing.
Herbert Spencer
Posthumous fame, book fame, nerd fame is not like the good kind of fame. It might last for centuries and let antique egg heads torture the young from the grave, but it just doesn't pay the bills.
Laura Penny
{Fame has] given me a lot of free love -- and that's the best thing fame can afford you. What has it taken away? My privacy.
Gloria Estefan
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