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

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Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 5, 21,

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Stronger Quotes #Habit Quotes

“If not you, then who? If not now, then when?”
“Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets.”
“The value of a man resides in what he gives”
“The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.”
“Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.”
“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”
“God and posterity will show me more favour”
“This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this is not necessarily the richest and more correct. He sacrifices one images for another more intense and expressive, and he does this repeatedly until new and unknown visions strike him with their revealing spell.”

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