One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.

Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like

Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but
utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negligere quid read more

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but
utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis
est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is read more

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

To be pointed out with the finger.

To be pointed out with the finger.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.

I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.