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"Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us."
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"The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price."
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"I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways."
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"We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence."
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"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
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"Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left."
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"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed."
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"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."
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"If you terminate a person from your life who is very toxic towards your reputation, you can actually lead yourself pertaining a career that you desire without any interference."
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"The company you keep determines how others view you. Identify with mediocrity and you will be labeled sub par. Collaborate with questionable people and your reputation becomes suspect. Guilt by association can end a career, hurt your business and cost you friends. Choose alliances wisely or you may be condemned for someone else's sins."
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"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
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"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
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"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Friendship

"Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act."
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"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."
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"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
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"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
Education

"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."
Courage

"It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition."
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"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
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