"What a heavy burden is a name..." - Quote by Voltaire
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
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“With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.”
“I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.”
“You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.”
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“I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.”
“If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.”
“I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?”