Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHow can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld