"The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair."

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Source : Eric Felten (2011). “Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

Eric Felten

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“Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based on the wish for others to be free of their suffering and is associated with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards others.”
“Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?”
“Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.”
“It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it.”
“Marc/Faythe/Jace love triangle moment: "This isn't about you...." "Well, it should be!" he shouted, and I flinched. "Everything I do is about you, and I want the reverse to be true, too." I wiped more tears, my throat aching with words that would only make this worse. "What, you need a reminder? That's what he was doing, right? And now you smell like him. You probably taste like him. You should taste like me..." He was on me before I could even catch my breath...”
“Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.”
“Catherine Zeta-Jones started out like me. Her big break in Hollywood was in Zorro.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.”

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