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Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]
Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam read more
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum
induerunt.]
Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]
Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]