Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discards it with indi...
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What is called vainglory is self-satisfaction, nourished by nothing but the good opinion of the multitude, so that when that is withdrawn, the satisfaction, that is to say, the chief good which every one loves, ceases. For this reason those who glory in the good opinion of the multitude anxiously and with daily care strive, labour, and struggle to preserve their fame. For the multitude is changeable and fickle, so that fame, if it be not preserved, soon passes away. As every one, moreover, is desirous to catch the praises of the people, one person will readily destroy the fame of another; and, consequently, as the object of contention is what is commonly thought to be the highest good, a great desire arises on the part of every one to keep down his fellows by every possible means, and he who at last comes off conqueror boasts more because he has injured another person than because he has profited himself. This glory of self-satisfaction, therefore, is indeed vain, for it is really no glory.
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...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
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Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested -- for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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God, for wise reasons, has made our affairs in this world, almost as fickle and capricious as ourselves.—Pain and pleasure, like light and d...
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The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
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The passion for money is never fickle.
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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
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