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“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

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Author:Aristotle

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”

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Author:Aristotle

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.”

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Author:Primo Levi

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”

Author:Peter Ustinov

“It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.”

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Author:Theophile Gautier

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

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.”