loyalty
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
loyal · desire for your prosperity · disloyal · faithful · fides · good will · service and support · true · want you to prosper
in the texts
Nicocles or the Cyprians
Faithfulness and goodwill toward the king, expressed in service, support, and rejection of disloyalty.
Do not keep silent if you see any who are disloyal to my rule, but expose them and believe that those who aid in concealing crime deserve the same punishment as those who commit it.
For if I continue to treat you as in time past, and you continue to give me your service and support, you will soon see your own life advanced, my empire increased, and the state made happy and prosperous.
and if they are faithful and just they will be given a share in my privileges;
Letters to Lucilius
Faithfulness and trustworthiness, especially under duress
Loyalty is the most sacred good of the human breast, which is forced by no necessity to deceive, corrupted by no reward.
Economics
Attachment to the master and household that makes a steward act for their prosperity in the master's absence.
Well, well, I won’t go on to ask whether anything more is wanting to your man, after you have implanted in him a desire for your prosperity and have made him also careful to see that you achieve it, and have obtained for him, besides, the knowledge needful to ensure that every piece of work done shall add to the profits, and, further, have made him capable of ruling, and when, besides all this, he …
You mean, then, that those who enjoy a share of your good things are loyal to you and want you to prosper?
Yes, Socrates, I find that is the best instrument for producing loyalty.