Was Marcus Aurelius wrong about lasting fame?

Meditations is a book that was meant to be forgotten.

Returning to Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations this morning, and I always get a little chuckle after passages like this:

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Little too, is the longest fame to come - dependant as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less one long dead and gone.