Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Imitation

Quotes about: Imitation

• In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Philosophical, Imitation

• It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Virtue, Imitation, Pleasure

• The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Imitation

• That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.
  [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Offering, Rewards, Virtue

• In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Doubt, Imitation, Advantage

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “Cicero on Oratory and Orators: With His Letters to Quintus and Brutus”, p.396, London, George Bell & sons

• All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Philosophical, Light

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