Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Imitation

Quotes about: Imitation

• Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Example, Doe

• There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Kind, Imitation

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 74, 1978.

• We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Envy, Competition, Imitation

• The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fun, Imitation, Poke

• The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Imitation, Absurdity, Copies

• Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Doe, World, Imitation

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