“Ill repute is a good thing and much the same as pain.”

“Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.”

A.E. Housman book A Shropshire Lad

“For the world is impure and envious of the able,
And eager to hide men's good and make much of their ill.”

Qu Yuan (-343–-278 BC) ancient Chinese poet

“It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.”

George Gissing book The Unclassed

“172. A good Reputation is a fair Estate.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.”

Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician

“What call ye them or Goods or Ills, ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain,
When realms arise and falls a roof; a world is won, a man is slain?”

Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…

“It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”
Honesta fama melior pecunia est.

Publilio Siro Latin writer

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy