"Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt."
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"....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power."
"Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?"
"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."
"The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation."
"Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation."
"Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it."
"No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost."
"Fools admire everything in an author of reputation."
"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
"In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable."
"My reputation grows with every failure."
"Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions."
"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."
"Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation."
"Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse"
"Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself."
"The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account."
"Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters."
"Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!"