The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.


Book I, ch. 22. Of Custom - Essais (1595) - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.