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Custom Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.
- The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.
- For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet,…
- Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
- There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
- The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
- Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
- Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and…
- A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are…
- The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
More Custom Quotes
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- Custom is second nature. — Saint Augustine
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. — Francis Bacon
- No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions… — Ruth Benedict
- Custom reconciles us to everything. — Edmund Burke
- Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. — Samuel Butler
- It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot… — Sholom Aleichem
- The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. — Dante Alighieri
- Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to… — Lord Chesterfield
- The best interpreter of the law is custom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero