Age Quote by Sallust

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

— Sallust

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

— Sallust

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

— Marcus Aurelius

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

— Edward Young

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis;…

— Sallust

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

— John Milton

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

— Horace Greeley

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

— Socrates

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ…

— Joseph Addison

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

— Mary MacLane

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

— Lady Gaga

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all,…

— Thomas Fuller