wealth and fame

When a man begins his career in right earnest he is attracted by two forces namely wealth or fame. He has to fix his aim on either of them to get both of them as very difficult if not impossible. We can enjoy ourselves dainty dishes put on fashionable clothes reside in palatial buildings get best entertainments visit foreign countries and have numbers other luxuries with the help of wealth. If we have money we can help our friends and relative in distress. Gold gives us everything we want.
From this point of view fame is surpassed by wealth Fame cannot produce any of these things for us. We often find famous persons in the grips of financial difficulties.
Love of wealth makes us industries. 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 is a few of us would have kept us in darkness.
All the time love of fame is nobler from than the love of money. In acquiring rather amassing wealth we have often to adopt dishonest means. We have to flatter one man bride 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.
Wealth leads to various vices while fame does not encourage them. This does not mean that famous men have no vices. But they have to avoid vices to maintain their fame. Wealth is a burden while fame is like light feather.
A person hankering after wealth is very selfish He wants wealth at any cost. We have heard of m any examples of persons who have betrayed their country for the sake of the money. Famous persons may be selfish in their own way but they know that their fame depends upon their merit and have thus to behave in certain way. Betrayal by them of their country will soon change their fame into notoriety. Wealth implies on merit in the person possessing it. Through in flattery we