“We must learn how to imitate Cicero from Cicero himself. Let us imitate him as he imitated others.”
Desiderius Erasmus book Ciceronianus
in The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 130.
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“In the weightiest matters we must go to school to the animals, and learn spinning and weaving from the spider, building from the swallow, singing from the birds,—from the swan and the nightingale, imitating their art.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
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