Habits count for more than maxims, because habit is a living maxim, becomes flesh and instinct. To reform one’s maxims is nothing: it is but to change the title of the book.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821 – 1881), Swiss philosopher, poet and critic. Journal Intime (1882)
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