The utmost renown never slakes a man's appetite and, unless he is a fool, he almost always dies uncertain of his own fame.

La célébrité la plus complète ne vous assouvit point et l’on meurt presque toujours dans l’incertitude de son propre nom, à moins d’être un sot. Donc l’illustration ne vous classe pas plus à vos propres yeux que l’obscurité.

Gustave Flaubert

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Topic

Appetite for fame Self-doubt Fame Human nature

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Source

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Maxime Du Camp. 26 June 1852.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Letters of Gustave Flaubert, edited by Richard Rumbold, translated by J. M. Cohen. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1950.

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Source
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Another quote from the 1850s

The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed.

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Medium
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
1853 1850s 19th century
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Original Citation

Douglass, Frederick. Speech in New York City. American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society annual meeting. 11 May 1853, New York City, NY, USA.

Current Citation

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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.

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Gordon Gekko
Actor
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Source
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Medium
Film
Genre
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Language
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Time
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Another quote originally in French

In the misfortune of our best friends we often find something that is not displeasing.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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Author

François de La Rochefoucauld
Source
Reflections
Medium
Epigram
Language
French
Time
1678 1670s 17th century
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Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.