
“Good temper is an estate for life…”
" On Personal Character http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/PersCharacter.htm" (1821)
The Plain Speaker (1826)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Good temper is an estate for life…”
" On Personal Character http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/PersCharacter.htm" (1821)
The Plain Speaker (1826)
statement on the referendum on Aboriginal Australians, 26 May 1967
As prime minister
Source: The Life and Death of Harold Holt, p. 213.
“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”
Honesta fama melior pecunia est.
Maxim 108
Sentences
“Ill repute is a good thing and much the same as pain.”
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
“Death only closes a Man's Reputation, and determines it as good or bad.”
No. 349 (10 April 1712)
Famously seen on the brothel wall in the film Easy Rider.
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.”
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 57,
Quoted in Peter Evans, Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, (1978) (p. 73 in the 1986 Summit Books edition)
“It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.”
Nominating speech for Blaine for President, at the Republican National Convention (15 June 1876).