Many of us are impersonations of what we know we ought to be.

What we say is similar to what we are.

Nous sommes si accoutumés à nous déguiser aux autres qu’enfin nous nous déguisons à nous-mêmes.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Nous devenons pareils à l’idéal que nous portons en
notre cœur.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

أنا أشبه أنا
واحدنا يشبه الآخر

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

They are shamelessly copying us.

We like people who are similar to us. This fact seems to hold true whether the similarity is in the area of opinions, personality traits, background, or life-style.

Implicit-egotism effect: we are generally drawn to the things and people that most resemble us.

The fear of the other makes us resemble the other who fears us.

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.