Pliny the Elder Quotes

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

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

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.