fame (n.) is so far from a blameable thing to desire that the desire seems inseparable from virtue, genius and a noble disposition.

David Hume on Fame

Arrive Before Their Explanation

Arrive Before They Are Understood

Become Less Precious When You Own Them

Brighten Then Dull

Create Their Own Gravity

Create Their Own Problems

Need No Introduction

fame

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stencil

celebrity

drunkenness

hardware

hammer

one-liner

trolley problem

assassination

murder

nonsense question

childhood

notoriety

getting rich

hard work

retirement

hustling

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Mark Ruffalo

social media

Facebook

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handwriting

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FAME The present condition of fame is merely fashion

Fame, like a river, is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

cannot be an instinct, or the fool's approval would please us as much as the wise man's.

Recast in definition form from: “But if the mind received from any original instinct a desire of fame and aversion to infamy, fame and infamy would influence us without distinction The judgment of a fool is the judgment of another person, as well as that of a wise man, and is only inferior in its influence on our own judgment.”

loved and pursued is a moral discipline — by constantly surveying ourselves as others see us, we keep right and wrong alive and come to revere ourselves.

Recast in definition form from: “… of surveying ourselves, as it were, in reflection, keeps alive …”

favours the easy writer: Cicero flourishes while Aristotle is utterly decayed, and Addison will be read with pleasure when Locke is entirely forgotten.

Recast in definition form from: “… And Addison, perhaps, will be read with pleasure, when Locke …”

is so far from a blameable thing to desire that the desire seems inseparable from virtue, genius and a noble disposition.

Recast in definition form from: “… from being blameable, that it seems inseparable from virtue, genius …”

flows upward in the imagination: Cornelia scolded her sons that she was better known as Scipio's daughter than as the mother of the Gracchi.

Recast in definition form from: “And on this is founded that reproach of Cornelia to her sons, that they ought to be ashamed she should be more known by the title of the daughter of Scipio than by that of the mother of the Gracchi”

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