Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• Habit is second nature.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Habit

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

• I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, People, Tolerance

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

• Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sleep, Eye, Judgment

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.80, Stanford University Press

• Habit is a second nature.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Habit

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.772, Stanford University Press

• I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Men, Differences

• A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Discipline, Vigor

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.865

• Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Attachment, Long, Vices

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

• One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are rooted in a strong and anchored in a powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies, which diverts us here and there.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Forgiveness, Strong, Powerful

  "Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".

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