If there's one important lesson I learned from my favorite book and author, it revolves around reputation.

And he had used his book to teach me to guard my reputation with my life. Why? He explained that reputation is the cornerstone of power.

And Friedrich Nietzsche had said that it's easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.

Thus, everyone ought to understand that reputation precedes them, and because it does, it inspires respect too.