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The Renaissance3 quotes
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones. — William Shakespeare · 1599Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare · 1604The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. — William Shakespeare · 1595Colonial America2 quotes
He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas. — Benjamin Franklin · 1733Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended. — Benjamin Franklin · 1750Age of Enlightenment1 quote
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't say anything. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Middle Ages1 quote
The reputation which the world bestows
is like the wind, that shifts now here now there,
its name changed with the quarter whence it blows. — Dante Alighieri · 1321