A Quote by Saint Augustine

Custom is second nature.

Saint Augustine

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Custom Nature Second Second Nature

Quote Author

Saint Augustine
Roman - Saint
354 - 430

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

Custom is almost a second nature.

Plutarch

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

Michel de Montaigne

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

Isaac Asimov

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

Frantz Fanon

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Blaise Pascal

It's very hard when you start working as a wrestler to try and stop doing things that are second nature. For me, when I take a move and start selling, that is second nature for me.