Francis Bacon Quotes on Reputation
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Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret.
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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
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A good name is like a precious ointment; it filleth all around about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
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Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
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The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.