Lying in a featherbed will not bring you fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
("Inferno")
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary
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