A Quote by Saint Francis de Sales

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Saint Francis de Sales

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Rarely Reputation Virtue

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Saint Francis de Sales
Swiss - Priest
August 21, 1567 - December 28, 1622

Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.

Jeremy Collier

Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between character and reputation. Reputation is what men think we are; character is what God knows us to be. Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is the breath of men; character is the inbreathing of the eternal God. One may for a time have a good reputation and a bad character, or the reverse ; but not for long.

Robert Stuart MacArthur

To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

Mason Cooley

Though the boot may fit the foot, one can rarely stand in the tread of his own reputation.

Wes Fesler

'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.

David Hume

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

Confucius

Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

Benjamin Franklin

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Richard Steele

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

Robert Greene

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.

Thomas Chalmers

Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.

Marie Leszczynska

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.