"“To imitate Socrates” meant, in other words, to staunchly refuse imitation; refuse imitation of the person “Socrates”…"

"... they copycat. That's a great danger in any business. If anybody comes to me and says we want to do this because t…"

"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."

"Imitation is suicide."

"You can only live for yourself: Your action is good only whilst it is alive—whilst it is in you. The awkward imitatio…"

"We must learn how to imitate Cicero from Cicero himself. Let us imitate him as he imitated others."

"L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; come per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene è sempre inferiore."

"Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated."

"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation."

"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty th…"