Loyalty is still the same,
Whether it win or lose the game;
True as a dial to the sun,
Although it be not shined upon. – Samuel Butler (poet)

Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was — nobody any longer wanted to be that. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg