The counterfeit and counterpart
Of Nature reproduced in art. [ Longfellow ]

Downy sleep, death's counterfeit. [ William Shakespeare ]

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. [ Roscommon ]

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit. [ Dryden ]

He who cannot counterfeit a friend can never be a very bad enemy. [ Proverb ]

He is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man. [ Shakespeare ]

Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love. [ Ninon de Leuclos ]

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit! [ Hosea Ballou ]

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretenses, like flowers, fall to the ground: nor can any counterfeit last long. [ Cicero ]

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart. [ Southern ]

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit. [ Macaulay ]

Rhetoric is appealing to the passions instead of the reason of your auditors, and claiming that value for the workmanship which ought to be measured by the ore alone. An orator is one who can stamp such a value upon counterfeit coin as shall make it pass for genuine. [ Chatfield ]

In my opinion mothers ought to bring up and suckle their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them; but the love of a nurse is spurious and counterfeit, as loving them only for hire. [ Plutarch ]