<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=491559" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>on IMitation (will that anger you?)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene e sempre inferiore.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Respicere exemplar<br>vitae morumque jubebo<br> Doctum imitatorem, <br>et veras hinc ducere voces.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari, <br>lule ceratis ope Daedalea Nititur pennis, <br>vitreo daturus Nomina ponto.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus<br> C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschopf.<br>Und wer Vorderste ist, fuhrt die Heerde.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Paradoxically though it may seem, <br>it is none the less true <br>that life imitates art far more <br>than art imitates life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imitation is suicide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No man ever yet became great by imitation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Everything that irritates us about others can lead us<br> to an understanding of ourselves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most people are other people. <br>Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, <br>their lives a mimicry, <br>their passions a quotation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those who do not want to imitate anything, <br> produce nothing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be as good as our fathers we must be better, <br> imitation is not discipleship</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Insist on yourself; never imitate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imitation, if noble and general, <br>insures the best hope of originality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now, weigh the pros and cons<br>why have i imitated you<br>and you imitating me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the great writers<br>above speak beforehand before us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and i have not heard ever<br>one of them complaining<br>or angry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">perhaps <br>they are not to shortsighted<br>insecure<br>and shallow and short-tempered</div><div style="margin:10px 0">precisely, they are great.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and here's the last saying for the day: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imitation is the sincerest flattery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=491559" data-title="On IMitation (will that anger you?) de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene e sempre inferiore.] Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces. Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari, lule ..."></div> </div> </div>

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