Useless quote for 15 August:
"L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene è sempre inferiore."
(He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.)
~ Francesco Guicciardini, 1537~1540
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Guicciardini was a major political writer of the Italian Renaissance, and friends with Niccolò Machiavelli.
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