Some might consider him as too fond of fame; for the desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Book IV, 6.Tacitus
Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, does not consider glory and fame to be of great account unless they are achieved through having my subjects respect Dhamma and practice Dhamma, both now and in the future. For this alone does Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, desire glory and fame. And whatever efforts Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, is making, all of that is only for the welfare of the people in the next world, and that they will have little evil. And being without merit is evil. This is difficult for either a humble person or a great person to do except with great effort, and by giving up other interests. In fact, it may be even more difficult for a great person to do.
Ashoka the Great
Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and Fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.
Vanna Bonta
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
Men the most infamous are fond of fame,
And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.Charles Churchill
To external observation, many may well be the most glorious creation, but all his glory is still only in the external and for the external: does not the eye aim its arrow outward every time passion and desire tighten the bowstring, does not the hand grasp outward, is not his arm stretched out, and is not his ingenuity all-conquering!
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Tacitus
Tadic, Boris
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