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Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

— Friedrich Schiller

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

— William Hazlitt

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

— Sallust

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

— Sallust

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

— Horace Greeley

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.

— Debbie Ford

The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.

— Thiruvalluvar

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

— Joshua Chamberlain

✗Opposing Perspectives

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

— Michael Huffington

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

— Jackie Robinson