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.]

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.

A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.

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.

I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one
do? According to men's habits read more

I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one
do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must
yield to them.
[Lat., Inepta haec esse, nos quae facimus sentio;
Verum quid facias? ut homo est, ita morem geras.]

Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]

Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]

Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.

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.]

Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.

Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.