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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato

Nature, Equality, Justice

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius

Design, Yourself, Often

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Soren Kierkegaard

Marriage, Weather, Wind

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Natural, Principles

Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke

Everything, Reconciles

The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon

Learning, Speak, Act

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Samuel Butler

Feeling, Country, Morality

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Michel de Montaigne

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
William Hazlitt

Find, Able, Room

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
Robert Hall

Whatever, Mankind, Authority

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
William Congreve

End, Tea, Ancient

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Ovid

Powerful, Nothing, Habit

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Almost, Opposite

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill

Human, Standing, Hindrance

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
Lord Chesterfield

Mind, May, Made

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Will Durant

Truth, Broken, Begins

Custom is the great guide to human life.
David Hume

Life, Great, Human

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
David Hume

Life, Reason, Guide

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Thomas Hardy

Manners, Argument, Morals

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter Lippmann

Cannot, Rather, Teach

Laws are subordinate to custom.
Plautus

Custom is second nature.
Augustine of Hippo

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.
Mindy Kaling

Live, Care, Children

Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus

Expediency, Adapts

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell

Education, Ignorance, Foundation

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
Marcus V. Pollio

Work, Nature, Whole

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
William Temple

Men, Nothing, Authority

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
Jack Dee

Hate, Clever, Officers

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
Felix Adler

Society, Sunday, Public

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