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The Renaissance2 quotes
The easy, gentle and sloping path…is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. — William Shakespeare · 1616