Envy Quote by Euripides

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

— Francis Bacon

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

— George Orwell

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

— William Shakespeare

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know; the same yesterday and to-morrow. Of yore…

— Henry David Thoreau

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

— Emily Dickinson

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

— Anonymous

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

— Michel de Montaigne

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

— Anonymous

That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.

— Joaquin Miller

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks…

— Robert Baden-Powell

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

— Robert Mapplethorpe