A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman - Statesman
106 BC - 43 BC

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

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]

Thomas a Kempis

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

Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]

Juvenal

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]

Quintilian

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Francis Bacon

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

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

William James

Habit is second nature.

Michel de Montaigne

Habit is a second nature.

Michel de Montaigne

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

Blaise Pascal

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

Thomas Browne

In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along [...] there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, quasi-judicial, "independent" regulatory commission or executive agency to kill off or override constitutional protections.

Ilana Mercer

Be nice until it becomes a habit. Give thanks like it is second nature.

Rita Zahara

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