Habits Quote by Robert Burton

“Misfortune and experience are lost upon mankind, when they produce neither reflection nor reformation. Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases…

— Thomas Paine

“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.”

— Anonymous

“In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of…

— Marilynne Robinson

“At times I have discovered a new lowness of spirit, a new need to revolt, to kick against the constraints that a civilized life…

— Winston Graham

“must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms of language; and that not only because the affectation…

— Herodotus

“Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. But there is no virtue at…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Mankind twist and turn the rules of the Lord, to suit their own wickedness, when their devilish cunning has had too much time to…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“Folly, error, sin, avarice Occupy our minds and labor our bodies, And we feed our pleasant remorse As beggars nourish their vermin.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“You cannot change what's written in the stars. Liar! Later, much later, I would come to this realisation: nothing is written. If it were,…

— Yasmina Khadra

“It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“we are directed not merely to abstain from evil actions, but even from evil thoughts, and from idle words, and empty talk, and scurrilous…

— The Church Fathers