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Faithfulness quotes

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“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.” Confucius, Analects

“My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Love is keeping the promise anyway.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“And the first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him; and when they are capable and faithful he may always be considered wise, because he has known how to recognize the capable and...” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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loyalty love sincerity wisdom trust principles belief need government imagination promise tragedy laziness entourage

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Oscar Wilde (3)
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