Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Habit, Disguise

• Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Change, Blood, People

• Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Blood, Age, Taste

• The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Opposites, Grace

• Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Knowledge, Understanding

• It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Mind, Habit

• Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Taste, Habit

• Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Writing, Men

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