Men think they may justly do that for which they have a
precedent.
[Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: Epistles (IV, 3)
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae West
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no
other.
Edmund Burke
Quotes , Source: Letter I--On a Regicide Peace (vol. V, p. 331)
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Illustrious Predecessor.
Edmund Burke
Quotes , Source: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
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Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 2)
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This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,--
That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Quotes , Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 496)
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The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings;
and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.
[Lat., Componitur orbis
Regis ad exemplum; nec sic inflectere sensus
Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis.]
Claudian (Claudianus)
Quotes , Source: De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCXCIX)
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Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others;
it is the only means.
Claudian (Claudianus)
Quotes , Source: De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCXCIX)
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As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges
them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of
others will often deter tender minds from vice.
[Lat., Avidos vicinum funus ut aegros
Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit;
Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe
Absterrent vitiis.]
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Quotes , Source: Satires (I, 4, 126)
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I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an
example to deter.
Junius
Quotes , Source: Letter XII--To the Duke of Grafton
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Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when
you, though an old man, do worse things (than your child)?
[Lat., Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis,
Cum facias pejora senex?
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Quotes , Source: Satires (XIV, 56)
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat
sticks fast.
[Fr., L'exemple est un dangereux leurre;
Ou la guepe a passe, le moucheron demeure.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Quotes , Source: Fables (II, XVI)
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Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave us behind
Footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: A Psalm of Life
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