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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
一般来说，失去一个好名声比从来没有得到它要可耻得多。
— Pliny the Elder 老普林尼
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更多好句 ↗We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
我们应该诚实、成熟地面对现实和过去的错误。自夸不能得荣耀，在黑暗里唱歌不能驱散恐惧。
King Hussein I
侯赛因一世国王
Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.
我们中的大多数人一直都是诚实的，我们中的所有人在大多数时候也都是诚实的。
Charles Mathias
查尔斯·马蒂亚斯
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
在证据不足的情况下相信任何事情，无论在任何地方，对任何人来说，都是错误的。
William Kingdon Clifford
威廉·金顿·克利福德
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
如果一个作家在评价自己的作品时需要谦虚和坦率，那么他的读者也同样需要谦虚和坦率。
Sarah Fielding
莎拉·菲尔丁
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
不要太担心你的自尊。多担心你的性格。正直本身就是奖赏。
Laura Schlessinger
劳拉·施莱辛格
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
我们所知道的唯一可靠的规则是，老是说要做一个绅士的人从来就不是一个真正的绅士。
Robert Smith Surtees
瑟蒂斯