Love of fame

From this point of view, fame is surpassed by wealth. Fame cannot procure any of these things for us. We often find famous persons in the grip of financial difficulties. Love of wealth makes us industrious. A philosopher has rightly said that our present progress in all the spheres of life is due to the love of wealth. More love of fame in a few of us would have kept us in darkness.

All the same love of fame is nobler than the love of money. In acquiring or rather amassing wealth, we often have to adopt dishonest means. We have to flatter one man, bribe another and deceive the third. Generally it is not so in acquiring fame. A poet or a painter cannot get fame by dishonest methods. But in the sphere of politics, some persons do adopt underhand practices for coming in limelight.