Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitativeness.
Imitation Quotes
Do not think of your faults, still less of others’ faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
Man is an imitative animal.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
No man ever yet became great by imitation. Whatever hopes for the veneration of mankind must have invention in the design or the execution; either the effect must itself be new, or the means by which it is produced. Either truths hitherto unknown must be discovered, or those which are already known enforced by stronger […]
We love in others what we lack ourselves, And would be everything but what we are.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
