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A good reputation is more valuable than money.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
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.
 The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the 
reputation I bear.
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 The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the 
reputation I bear.
 [Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich
  Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.] 
 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.] 
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than read more
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
 O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of 
myself, and what remains is bestial. read more 
 O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of 
myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my 
reputation! 
 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met 
on the street.  
 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met 
on the street. 
 Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on 
suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of read more 
 Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on 
suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the 
voters. 
 I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the 
popular breath may chance to raise him.
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 I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the 
popular breath may chance to raise him.
 [Ger., Ich halte nichts von dem, der von sich denkt
  Wie ihn das Volk vielleicht erheben mochte.]