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FAME
"The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you."Anonymous
"Consider how thin such fame is and how unimportant. it is well known, and you have seen it demonstrated by astronomers, that beside the extent of the heavens, the circumferences of the earth has the size of a point; that is to say, compared with the magnitude of the celestial sphere, it may be thought of as having no extent at all. The surface of the world, then, is small enough, and of it, as you have learnt from the geographer Ptolemy, approximately one quarter is inhabited by living beings known to us. If from this quarter you subtract in your mind all that is covered by sea and marshes and the vast areas of desert by lack of moisture, then scarcely the smallest of regions is left for men to live in. This is the tiny point within a point, shut in and hedged about, in which you think of spreading your fame and extending your renown."
-Boethius
AMBITION,n An overwhelming desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce
Devil's Dictionary
Book: "Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of" by David Carlyon