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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
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"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
"The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free."
"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."
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"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."
"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."
"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
"I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another."
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