Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Mind, Virtue

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1671, Delphi Classics

• The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Atheist, Practice, Support

  "On the Nature of the Gods". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC.

• A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Retirement, Healthy, Wish

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1942). “Cicero: De oratore ...”

• Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Race, Habit

• Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, People, Judging

• Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Power, Bears

  "Dictionary Of Latin Quotations Proverbs Maximus And Mottos, Classical And Medieval, Including Law Terms And Phrases". Book by H. Z Riley, November 5, 2015.

• Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Would Be, Human Nature

• Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Practice, Demon, Habit

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Habit

• It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mind, Able, Talent

• The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Evil, Limits

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