Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Ideas

    Reputation and honor

    idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    reputation · ancestral repute · fair reputation · glory · good repute · good will · highly esteemed · honor · honors · praise

    in the texts

    To PhilipClassical · Greek

    The public esteem, honor, and lasting fame that Philip may gain through leadership or lose through hostile accusations.

    you will see all Hellas on tiptoe with interest in whatever you happen to propose;
    to philip
    you will advise with them about the general welfare, for which no other man will be found to have shown a like concern;
    to philip
    By speaking this rubbish, by pretending to have exact knowledge and by speedily effecting in words the overthrow of the whole world, they are convincing many people.
    to philip

    To TimotheusClassical · Greek

    Public esteem gained by wise, virtuous, and humane conduct.

    so that, if you are faithful to your present reputation, you will not lack those who will praise both your wisdom and this choice.
    to timotheus
    on the contrary, their conduct of affairs should be so gentle and so in accordance with the law that no one will venture to plot against them;
    to timotheus
    for most men are wont to praise and honor, not so much the sons of fathers who are of good repute, as those born of harsh and cruel fathers, provided that they show themselves to be similar in no respect to their parents.
    to timotheus

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    The concern for personal and collective reputation that motivates both Epaminondas's decision to risk battle and the Athenian cavalry's eager charge against superior numbers.

    For although they saw that the enemy were far more numerous, and although a misfortune had befallen the horsemen at Corinth, they took no account of this, nor of the fact that they were about to fight with the Thebans and the Thessalians, who were thought to be the best of horsemen, but rather, being ashamed to be at hand and yet render no service to their allies, just as soon as they saw the enem …
    book 48
    As for Epaminondas, on the other hand, when he considered that within a few days it would be necessary for him to depart, because the time fixed for the campaign had expired, and that if he should leave behind him unprotected the people to whom he had come as an ally, they would be besieged by their adversaries, while he himself would have completely tarnished his own reputation, — for with a larg …
    chapter 7