Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.