“She [virtue] requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, 11 … or internal difficulties.”

— Michel De Montaigne , book Essays

Book II, Ch. 11. Of Cruelty
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, … 1533–1592

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