Discourses, Book I, Chapter 22
And who exactly are these people that you want to be admired by? Aren't they the same people you are in the habit of calling crazy? And is this your life ambition, then - to win the approval of lunatics?
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 2, 12:
...the real nature of the things our senses experience, especially those that entice us with pleasure or frighten us with pain or are loudly trumpeted by pride. To understand those things - how stupid, contemptible, grimy, decaying and dead they are - that's what our intellectual powers are for. And to understand what those people really amount to, whose opinions and voices constitute fame.
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