Give yourself this present moment. People who chase fame after death don't realize something. The future generations will be just like the people alive now — the same people they can barely stand. And those future people will also die. But think about it clearly. If many people make noise about you or have opinions about you, what does that matter to you?
This time that is now present, bestow thou upon thyself. They that rather hunt for fame after death, do not consider, that those men that shall be hereafter, will be even such, as these whom now they can so hardly bear with. And besides they also will be mortal men. But to consider the thing in itself, if so many with so many voices, shall make such and such a sound, or shall have such and such an opinion concerning thee, what is it to thee?