Virtue shuns ease as a companion... It demands a rough and thorny path. — Michel de Montaigne
Virtue shuns ease as a companion... It demands a rough and thorny path.
In the original French
La vertu refuse la facilité pour compaigne … Elle demande un chemin aspre et espineux.
Essays · 1580
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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Cruelty." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.
Original citation
De Montaigne, Michel. "De La Cruaute [Of Cruelty]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.
