Trick Yourself into Breaking a Bad Habit

Re:Trick Yourself into Breaking a Bad Habit by konart on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:04AM (#36185294)

I think most of the proverbs can be found in different languages in similar forms.

But with nuances. The russian saying is similar: "С кем поведёшься, от того и наберёшься" (literally: "You learn from the people you take up with").

One way to same the same thing is "a man is known by the company he keeps", but the best english equivalent would be: "You lie with dogs, you wake up with fleas"

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Re:Trick Yourself into Breaking a Bad Habit by fixthisplz on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:09AM (#36185319)

Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres

We also have

Cría cuervos y te comerán los ojos

In case you want to warn of dangerous acquaintances

https://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/refranero/ficha.aspx?Par=585....

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Re:Trick Yourself into Breaking a Bad Habit by adhesive_wombat on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:54AM (#36185625)

So maye much be spyed also, by the company and pastyme that he useth. (Heinrich Bullinger, 1541, translated to English by Bishop Myles Coverdale).

Though surely the idea goes back to antiquity and someone like Seneca would have something to say about it (but not in English)!

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Re:Trick Yourself into Breaking a Bad Habit by samstave on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:57AM (#36185647)

This is an amazing prescient quote of the current state of employee monitoring, and its 500 years old.

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