Aristotle quotes on habit

Thus, a habit is a habit of something, knowledge is knowledge of something, attitude is the attitude of something
Source: Aristotle, The Categories

Hence the necessity that he should have been well trained in habits, who is to

Of beasts, some live in herds, others separate, as is most convenient for procuring themselves food; as some of them live upon flesh, others on fruit, and others on whatsoever they light on, nature having so distinguished their course of life, that they can very easily procure themselves subsistence; and as the same things are not agreeable to all, but one animal likes one thing and another another, it follows that the lives of those beasts who live upon flesh must be different from the lives of those who live on fruits; so is it with men, their lives differ greatly from each other; and of all these the shepherd's is the idlest, for they live upon the flesh of tame animals, without any trouble, while they are obliged to change their habitations on account of their flocks, which they are compelled to follow, cultivating, as it were, a living farm
Source: Aristotle, Poetics

The latter drove in on a chariot with the woman beside him, and the inhabitants of the city, struck with awe, received him with adoration
Source: Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution

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