It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.
You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
I don't have any shame.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.