Granted the endless variations of moral customs still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory all else may change but the standards are unalterable disinterested love of truth fidelity to facts accuracy in measurement exactness of verificationso in life as a whole the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth theft better than than honesty treachery better than loyalty cowardice better than courage.
Men commonly think according to their inclinations speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions but generally act according to custom.
There is no tyrant like custom and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Granted the endless variations of moral customs still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory all else may change but the standards are unalterable disinterested love of truth fidelity to facts accuracy in measurement exactness of verificationso in life as a whole the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth theft better than than honesty treachery better than loyalty cowardice better than courage.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.