In the spirit of the tangent because you know contemporary success is vanity and you should aim at what's eternal. The western tradition is filled with admoniti

In the spirit of the tangent because you know contemporary success is vanity and you should aim at what's eternal. The western tradition is filled with admonitions since the Greeks about these things-- Seneca's letter 7 "on crowds", everything written by Epicurus, the entire life of Diogenes... Montaigne "on glory"