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.

    And what man that is even moderately endowed with reason would not exhort you to fix your choice above all upon that course of action which is capable of bearing at one and the same time the twofold fruits, if I may so speak, of surpassing joys and of imperishable honors?
    to philip
    on the contrary, you ought then, and only then, to be satisfied that you enjoy a reputation which is good and great and worthy of yourself and of your forefathers and of the achievements of your line, when you have brought the Hellenes to feel toward you as you see the Lacedaemonians feel toward their kings, and as your companions feel toward yourself.
    to philip
    Consider how worthy a thing it is to undertake, above all, deeds of such a character that if you succeed you will cause your own reputation to rival that of the foremost men of history, while if you fall short of your expectations you will at any rate win the good will of all the Hellenes—which is a better thing to gain than to take by force many Hellenic cities;
    to philip

    To TimotheusClassical · Greek

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

    but if you already have enough of these and wish virtue, fair reputation, and the goodwill of your subjects in general, you should heed my words and emulate those rulers who govern their states well and should endeavor to surpass them.
    to timotheus
    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
    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 7
    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 …
    book 7