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Letter "I" » Imitation
"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
About: Imitation
"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)
About: Imitation
"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)
About: Imitation
"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)
About: Imitation
"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
About: Imitation
"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
About: Imitation
"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
About: Imitation
"Imitation is suicide."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
About: Imitation
"Imitation is the sincerest flattery."
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
About: Imitation
"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
About: Imitation
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