She [virtue] requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, 11 ... or internal difficulties. (Michel de Montaigne)

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

Michel de Montaigne

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