Anne, Princess Royal on fame

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• In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.

  Andy Warhol1928–1987Catalogue of an exhibition of his art in Stockholm, Sweden (1968)

• Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

  Emily Dickinson1830–1886Fame is a fickle food (B)

• Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

  Tacitus55–120

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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