Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Reputation
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Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
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Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.
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Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.
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The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.
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