Michel De Montaigne Quotes

When We Spread Our Name By Scattering It Into Many Mouths We Call That 'increasing Our Renown'; We Wish Our Name To Be Favourably Received There And That It May Gain From Such An Increase. That Is What Is Most Pardonable In Such A Design. But Carried To Excess This Malady Makes Many Seek To Be On Others' Lips, No Matter How. Trogus Pompeius Says Of Herostratus, And Livy Says Of Manlius, That They Were More Desirous Of A Wide Reputation Than A Good One.42 That Is A Common Vice. We Are More Concerned That Men Should Talk Of Us Than Of How They Talk Of Us; And We Are Far More Concerned That Our Name Should Run From Mouth To Mouth Than Under What Circumstances It Should Do So.

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