"Vices are often habits rather than passions." — Antoine Rivarol
"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
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Antoine Rivarol
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26 Quotes by Antoine Rivarol
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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
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Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
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Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
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There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.
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The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often…
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There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as…
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Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
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What isn’t clear, isn’t French.
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Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.
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It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
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The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal…
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Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
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More Habit Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the…
— Aristotle
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
— David Attenborough
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this…
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
— John James Audubon
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