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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Illustrious Predecessor.

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

Illustrious predecessors.

Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.

Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obey'd.

Content to follow when we lead the way.

As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.

Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse things ? [Lat., Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis, Cum facias pejora senex?

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave us behind Footprints on the sands of time.

He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.

He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.

Sheep follow sheep.

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.