The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.
Heraclitus, translation by G.T.W. Patrick, 1889
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