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Fidelity is not valuable in itself but gains its value is its object. Faithfulness to evil, to small things(pettiness) to hadreds or angers (resentment)are not virtues. It is only a virtue if the object holds value, is good or noble. Fidelity should be directed only towards worthy objects and in proportion to to their worth.( Comte-Sponville 1996, page 20-29)

Faithfulness to love one forever does not mean that one will love one forever since love is a feeling. It is rather a committment to be faithful to the love that we once held

Reference

Comte-Sponville, Andre (1996) A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues, New York: Henry Holt and Company

Connolly, Peter(1999) Approaches to the Study of Religion, London: Cassell