“Reputation, like health, is preserved and increased by the same…” Lord Chesterfield

Reputation, like health, is preserved and increased by the same means by which it is acquired.

In today’s wordsReputation, like health, is kept and increased by the same means that gained it.

Source: Letters to His Son, Letter LXXIX (London, August 21, O.S. 1749), written to Philip Stanhope between 1737 and 1768; Project Gutenberg edition of the 1901 text

Lord Chesterfield: Reputation, like health, is preserved and increased by the same means by which…