Socrates of Bithynia Quotes

Success doesn't change you; fame does.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.

The idol of your self is the mother of all idols. To regard the self as easy to subdue is a mistake.

I want the money, the women, the fortune and fame
That means I end up burnin' in Hell, scorchin' in flame
That means I'm stealin' your checkbook and forgin' your name
This lifetime bliss for eternal torture and pain

Happy the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!

It is only due to a lack of heart for the Way and a lack of skill in handling their daily conduct that people become vainly tied to fame and gain.

To subdue destruction is one of the most important affirmations of which we are capable in this world. It is the affirmation of this life, bound up with yours, and with the realm of the living: an affirmation caught up with a potential for destruction and its countervailing force.

I wanted people to obey me! To worship my immortal beauty! To love me forever and ever! This is what everyone wants in Ivywood! That's why we all want to be famous! Fame doesn't last. But the people you brainwash will be your faithful slaves until a special cure is applied.

[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zhuangzi/ Zhuangzi], Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauvoir/ "Simone de Beauvoir" by Debra Bergoffen at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

Due to having faith one relies on the practices,
Due to having wisdom one truly knows.
Of these two wisdom is the chief,
Faith is its prerequisite.