Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Reputation

Quotes about: Reputation

• When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Alive, Merit, Reputation

• It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Perfect, Reputation, Easy

• False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Real, Character, Men

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