Even like a mother fame keeps people alive; but a man given to in famy is as good as dead even though his frame be not destroyed.
कीर्तिर्हि पुरुषं लोके संजीवयति मातृवत्। अकीर्तिर्जीवितं हन्ति जीवतोऽपि शरीरिणः॥