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He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that
is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always
falls short.
[It., L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il
contrario, l'imitazione del bene e sempre inferiore.]
Author: Franceso Guicciardini
Source: Storia d' Italia
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I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely
into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with
truth.
[Lat., Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo
Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ars Poetica (CCCXVII)
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He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on
artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his
name to a glassy sea.
[Lat., Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari,
Iule ceratis ope Daedalea
Nititur pennis, vitreo daturus
Nomina ponto.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (IV, 2, 1)
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We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved.
[Lat., Dociles imitandis
Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (XIV, 40)
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
[Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis
Que les imitateurs.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Clymene (v. 54)
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An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the
herd.
[Ger., Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschopf.
Und wer Vorderste ist, fuhrt die Heerde.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Wallenstein's Tod (III, 4, 9)
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that
life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Wallenstein's Tod (III, 4, 9)
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Imitation is suicide.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
Author: Francesco Guicciardini
Source: None
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No man ever yet became great by imitation.
Author: Dr Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Author: Carl Jung
Source: None
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Author: Salvador Dali
Source: None
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
Author: Wendell Phillips
Source: None
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Insist on yourself; never imitate.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Source: None
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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Source: None
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