Imitation

(277 votes)   You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Honore De Balzac
1799-1850, French Novelist

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(207 votes)   The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(194 votes)   Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(179 votes)   Our actions throughout the day seek to imitate nature by having a purpose. Kindness is like the rising of the sun that sheds new light on matters and compassion is like the rain that washes a way the old and nurtures new life.

Michael Heninger
Social Services

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(162 votes)   There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(126 votes)   Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Marquis De Sade
1740-1814, French Author

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(116 votes)   To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(107 votes)   Imitation belittles.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(83 votes)   It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.

David J. Schwartz
American Trainer, Author of ''The Magic of Thinking Big''

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(82 votes)   Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

W. Winwood Reade
1838-1875, American Writer

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(80 votes)   Imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(75 votes)   Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Sir Richard Steele
1672-1729, British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor

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(72 votes)   Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Augusto Roa Bastos
1917-, Paraguayan Novelist

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(69 votes)   I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Frank Moore Colby
1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist

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(64 votes)   No man was ever great by imitation.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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