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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Michel de Montaigne
Way, Virtue, Companion

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

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Desire, May, Virtue

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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Courage, Navy, Virtue
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

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Disappointment, Virtue, Cowardly

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

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Ease, Path, Virtue

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

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Vices, Virtue
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1414, Delphi Classics

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

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Order, Discipline, Virtue

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

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Demand, Path, Virtue
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.308, Stanford University Press

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

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Men, May, Virtue
Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.317

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

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Purpose, Sometimes, Virtue
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.370, 谷月社

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

Michel de Montaigne
Suicide, Suicidal, Virtue

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