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A good name is better than precious ointment.
Losing face is as important to people as losing bark is to a tree.
Knowing someone by reputation is not as good as meeting him face to face.
When a leopard dies, it leaves its skin; when a person dies, he leaves his reputation.
Local ginger is not considered hot.
A person far from home is not valued highly, but goods imported from afar are.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, sometimes longer and sometimes shorte ...
Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.
There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some there be, which have no memori ...
For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages.
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