“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?”
“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”
“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
“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.”
“Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.”
“Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]”
“It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.”
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